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Speaker 1: Oh, a great time go by, Steve plasterers domes do

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Speaker 1: do were time? Welcome the one bills live here on

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday. It is, by the way, it's blackout Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: um and un unfortunately it's our job to be a

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Speaker 1: here along with my co post Maddie Glad the Mad Girl.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on. It's good to see you again.

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Speaker 1: Mad good to be on. And like you were saying,

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Speaker 1: I think blackout Tuesday, it wasn't meant for a bunch

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Speaker 1: I think this is a time, like you said, to

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Speaker 1: we talked about some books that we were reading. I

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Speaker 1: it's called So you Want to Talk about Race? Written

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Speaker 1: a young receiver like Um. You know JJ they went

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Speaker 1: out so UM, you know, I wish him well. He's

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Speaker 1: a good kid. He worked hard for me. He was

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Speaker 1: he was you know, really, if you said somebody was

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Speaker 1: a pain in the buttet, you probably wouldn't say him.

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Speaker 1: So I'm way worse guys than him. I think he's

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Speaker 1: you know, I hope he has a great career and

435
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Speaker 1: Um finishes up strong. So that should get Biddles fans

436
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Speaker 1: a little bit of insight as to how it really

437
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Speaker 1: was with Steph Diggs. Mike Zimmer liked him. He said

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Speaker 1: he worked hard for him. He wasn't that some sort

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Speaker 1: of diva problem. They wanted him to come back. And

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Speaker 1: that's also because I'm inside is you know some people

441
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Speaker 1: are saying, wow, Bills played a lot to get him. Well,

442
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Speaker 1: that's what it was going to take, because he's that

443
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Speaker 1: good a player. Yeah. That quote was from the Rich

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Speaker 1: Eyes and Show on last Thursday, I believe. And you

445
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Speaker 1: want a wide receiver who wants the ball. That's what

446
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Speaker 1: wide receivers do, and that's their personality. Type is that

447
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Speaker 1: type that wants the ball and they want to play

448
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Speaker 1: a part in the game. They want to score touchdowns. Tasker,

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Speaker 1: you know this. You've You've played with some great wide

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Speaker 1: receivers and that's just how they are. And you want

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Speaker 1: somebody who wants to contribute and be a big part

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Speaker 1: of the game. And if Steph Diggs is that way,

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Speaker 1: then good he should be that way. It's funny too,

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Speaker 1: because you're right, I did play with I played with

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Andre Reid. I also played in in

456
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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl with other Hall of Fame guys like

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Speaker 1: Tim Brown, guys like that. I mean, I played with

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Speaker 1: a lot of really good receivers, with Mark Clayton, Mark Duper,

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Speaker 1: those guys from Miami. I was on the field with

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Speaker 1: those guys in the Pro Bowl. They were I was

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Speaker 1: in a locker room with him, and there I was

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Speaker 1: with James Lofton. Who's who's all? You know? It was

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Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame wide receiver. I mean, and it

464
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Speaker 1: has been my experience that all of those guys are

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Speaker 1: vocal and passionate about getting the ball. They talk about it,

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Speaker 1: they lobby for it, they pout when it doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: It's part of the deal. You are like that. You

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Speaker 1: get to the point where you're an elitewide receiver because

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Speaker 1: you want those opportunities, because you want the ball, because

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Speaker 1: you like that pressure. You come through in moments like that.

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Speaker 1: That's how you get to the Hall of Fame, and

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Speaker 1: that's how you get the ball. And a guy like

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs has that in his personality. Think about those

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Speaker 1: guys Stefan Diggs, about DeAndre Hopkins, about Odell Beckham Junior,

475
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Speaker 1: about all these guys that throw hissy fits when things

476
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Speaker 1: don't go their way, when the ball doesn't come to them.

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Speaker 1: There's only one guy Jerry Rice was that way. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just remember after a game when we beat them

479
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Speaker 1: in San Francisco. After the game he got nicked in

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Speaker 1: early in the game and they took him out of

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Speaker 1: the game early and after the game, and he was

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Speaker 1: he was not happy that he didn't get the ball.

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Speaker 1: You know, he had friends on art, we had acquaintances,

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Speaker 1: you know, Pro Bowl guys that you know Andrea and

485
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Speaker 1: these guys that knew him. He was not happy about

486
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Speaker 1: not getting the ball and not having that, you know,

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Speaker 1: missing that game. So it's part of their DNA. There's

488
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Speaker 1: only been one guy in my experience, and it was

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Speaker 1: all me all when I was with the media, was

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Speaker 1: since I played, that has not been a guy who

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Speaker 1: has been at least a little public about his discontent

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Speaker 1: of not getting the ball. There's only been one guy

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Speaker 1: who I've seen who is a Hall of Famer, not

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Speaker 1: yet but will be, who was not a guy who

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Speaker 1: the general public knew. Oh while you could tell he

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Speaker 1: was not happy about getting the ball, nobody ever, I

497
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Speaker 1: never saw one public outburst or a tweet or argument

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Speaker 1: on a sideline or anything from this player when he

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Speaker 1: didn't get the ball. And that's Larry Fitzgerald. He's the

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Speaker 1: only guy I've ever seen, and here's a guy's sixteen years,

501
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Speaker 1: absolutely a Hall of Famer. He's caught a ton of

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes from a sixty gazillion different quarterbacks in Arizona.

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Speaker 1: He's been an unbel He's had an unbelievably elite NFL

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Speaker 1: career with unbelievably non elite quarterbacks. Right. He had a couple, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he had Kurt Warner for a minute, and

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Speaker 1: he had Carson Palmer for a minute. But in the

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Speaker 1: midst of the rest of it, you know, Kyler Murray

508
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Speaker 1: has been a long time coming for him, So it's

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Speaker 1: part of the deal. And for the stuff that came

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Speaker 1: out about Stefan Diggs last year in Minnesota, that was

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Speaker 1: pretty pedestrian discontent. I am. It was pretty run of

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Speaker 1: the mill stuff, and it got a little bit blown

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Speaker 1: out of proportion because you know, somebody saw it and

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Speaker 1: it was early in the season. But obviously even from

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Speaker 1: the from my experience and from the from the words

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Speaker 1: coming out of Mike Zimmer, the head coach's mouth, Steph Diggs,

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Speaker 1: you want him on your team. And that goes for

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00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: the team that traded him that's pretty cool for Bills

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Speaker 1: fans to hear. I think, yeah, for the head coach

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00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: to speak up and say, this guy's not a pain

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Speaker 1: of the butt. And Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean are

522
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Speaker 1: going to do everything and more to vet these players

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Speaker 1: and make sure they're going to fit in the culture

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Speaker 1: in the locker room. And if he's on the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's going to fit in to that culture

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Speaker 1: in that locker room. And Brandon and Sean football players.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, we heard them talk

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Speaker 1: about that when some of the forty times were brought

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Speaker 1: up of our new football players, that they didn't run

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Speaker 1: the fastest forties. Brandon Bean doesn't care about that because

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Speaker 1: he wants a football player. He wants somebody that's going

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Speaker 1: to make an impact in the game. And I think

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Speaker 1: we saw from one of the embedded clips where I

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Speaker 1: think it was a j Epenessel's running his forty or

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Speaker 1: one of these players was running their forty and they

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Speaker 1: ran a little bit slower, and Brandon was kind of

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Speaker 1: happy about that because that meant that they had a

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00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: better chance to get him because some of these teams

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Speaker 1: only look at forty times and they draft for speed.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Henry Ruggs is a great player, and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure he's gonna have a great NFL career, But some

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00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: of these NFL teams just want speed. The forty is

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00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: God for them, and they will chase speed more than

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Speaker 1: other things. And I like that. The Buffalo Bills are

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Speaker 1: a team that doesn't do that. They can look past

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Speaker 1: a slower forty and look at film, which is what

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Speaker 1: really matters. Yeah, it really is. It's it's fun to

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Speaker 1: think about that, the gamesmanship that goes on when you're

549
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Speaker 1: trying to find players and which players, and you go

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Speaker 1: back to the old AFL NFL days where team it

551
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: was kind of the wild West back then, where you'd

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Speaker 1: have teams putting a guy up a secretly in a

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Speaker 1: hotel and going to visit him, and snug and smuggling

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Speaker 1: a guy out of town in and out of you know,

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Speaker 1: it's all that stuff going on. It was really it

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Speaker 1: was really funny. You know, it's funny now in day today,

557
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: but even now, the gamesmanship goes on and you got

558
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: guys like to brand Beadsanco, don't run too fast, just

559
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Speaker 1: just you know, do it. It's a lot of fun

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00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: to think because they want more than a forty time

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Speaker 1: in their players. Brandon Bean Sean McDermott have made it

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Speaker 1: crystal clear to all of us who follow this team

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Speaker 1: that there's more to their players than their physical abilities.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's fun to see. I think it's

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Speaker 1: interesting and it's been part of the cool thing to

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Speaker 1: be a Bills fan over the past three years to

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Speaker 1: see them build the team that way and then on

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Speaker 1: Sundays when the sideline is jumping up and down and

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Speaker 1: hugging the fifth string wide receiver for catching a first

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Speaker 1: down pass, and how cool, how cool it is to

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Speaker 1: see that happen. It makes it that much more fun

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Speaker 1: to be a fan of the team. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun to see steph Um flourish in

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Speaker 1: that atmosphere. So I'm I'm looking forward to it. And

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of reasons why, but and those are

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Speaker 1: just a few of them. So I'm with you. I'm

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00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: totally into it, and I hope it it goes. Let's uh, um,

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Speaker 1: it's just a there's just a ton of stuff going on. Um,

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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm um, I don't know, I'm just excited

580
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: to see everything happen. But if you want to get

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Speaker 1: in on this, you can get an answer our Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll as to which group is underappreciated. We've been talking

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Speaker 1: about it ourselves, um, and we'll see if if we

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Speaker 1: can get something. I'm kind of at a lass here there.

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Speaker 1: I finally got the right website. Now I can uh yeah, okay,

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00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: so I had to my my computer went down, so

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00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: I was sitting here fumbling around and I can't talk

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Speaker 1: without my technology. At least at least my Skype is

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00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: still working, right, so yeah, we can see it. You're

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00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: looking great, all right? Which which what's the most underrated

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00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: unit on the Bill's roster? Is it tight ends, is

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00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: that the offensive line is linebackers? Or is it something

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00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: of your own choosing? You can you can call us

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Speaker 1: at eight O three oh five fifty or one eighty

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty two five fifty one

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. You can tweet

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Speaker 1: at us, but we will not post anything on Twitter today.

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00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: We're kind of laying low and trying not to be

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00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: a distraction on social media. If you're driving in your card,

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00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: you can't get on your computer or anything. You can

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00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: certainly use us as a distraction. It's kind of what

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00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: we do. We're talking about the Buffalo Bills. We touched

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00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: a little bit on the turmoil in the streets these

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00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: days and everything that's going on in Buffalo and nationwide.

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Speaker 1: We touched on a little bit earlier in the show.

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Speaker 1: We'll certainly take calls and your comments on Twitter, but

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Speaker 1: we won't be posting anything to adding to that distraction.

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Speaker 1: So Steve Tasker, Mattie Glab here with you. We're here

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Speaker 1: till three o'clock. Lorenzo Alexander's coming on at one, and

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Speaker 1: Steve Mariucci add one thirty. So we've got a lot

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Speaker 1: to talk about today and also coming up. We also

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Speaker 1: later in the show. And this is your idea, Maddie,

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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta give you full kudos. You want

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Speaker 1: us to give our top five for the week? Right, yes,

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Speaker 1: our top five weeks? Well, I thought, you know, in

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Speaker 1: these summer months, when football is not necessarily going on,

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Speaker 1: it would be fun to do so maybe more light

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Speaker 1: hearted segments get off of the XS and os, and

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Speaker 1: our top five could be repeating segment, as is a

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Speaker 1: couple other segments that we have in the works. But

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Speaker 1: this is something that we're going to come up with

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Speaker 1: our top five of the week. So what's our what's

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Speaker 1: our top five favorite things this week? See it could

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Speaker 1: be your mac and cheese from yesterday that you had

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Speaker 1: during the show. I mean that looked pretty bomb. It

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Speaker 1: was it was dirty, it was pretty top top five.

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Speaker 1: I will say this, some of my top fives will

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Speaker 1: apply to anyone but my in fact, maybe all of

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Speaker 1: them do. I don't know. I'm just saying that these

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Speaker 1: are not everybody had access to all five of my

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Speaker 1: top five that I did. These are some of them

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Speaker 1: very personal. The rest of them, some of them are public,

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Speaker 1: very public. So that we'll stick with that. And uh

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Speaker 1: and I will I will let you listen to my

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Speaker 1: top five when we get that. Any idea of what

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Speaker 1: time we're gonna do that, so people can all right,

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Speaker 1: from two to thirty, we'll do that. And also if

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Speaker 1: you have a top five of the week, you can

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Speaker 1: call in as well at eight or three oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty or five fifty two fifty. But wait until after

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Speaker 1: two o'clock and we'll get through some phone calls. Man,

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Speaker 1: if if we can, Steve Tasker, Maddi glab here with

643
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Speaker 1: you until three o'clock. Uh. This uh one of the

644
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: other things that that came about. Uh this Uh the

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Speaker 1: website listed to comeback and his ten ten youngsters ready

646
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Speaker 1: to become stars in twenty twenty. It's like Devin Singletary,

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Speaker 1: Uh is the only um is Devin single one of

648
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: the only guys on the our team that's ready to

649
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: become a star? Who else has a chance to become

650
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: a start? Only one on this list? Yeah, he was

651
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Speaker 1: the only one on that list, But I don't know why. Well,

652
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 1: think about this, Maddie. Our middle linebacker Tremaine Edmonds, by

653
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: young guys who are going to become a star. He's

654
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: the third youngest player on the team. He's going into

655
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: his third year in the next He's still count like

656
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: he just turned twenty one, right, He played his entire

657
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: first year in the league at twenty and he just

658
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: barely turned twenty after he was drafted. He's still gonna

659
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: be at I think Tremaine Edmonds is gonna play middle

660
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: linebacker for the Buffalo Bills for a decade or more,

661
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Speaker 1: I think, And I can't wait to see him. He's

662
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: gonna He's truly going to become a fantastic player. So

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Speaker 1: I think that's one of the ones that I think

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Speaker 1: they missed on that list. Devin Singletary, Certainly, he's a

665
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: young player in the league, but Tremaine Edmonds is not

666
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: far behind in my opinion. Yeah, and I think some

667
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,280
Speaker 1: other guys on the Bills a roster who are destined

668
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: to become stars based on what they did last season.

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00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna talk about Titans today, but I

670
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: think Dawson Ox is somebody who could have a great season.

671
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: H Cody Ford, I think he could continue to improve

672
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 1: this year. He was rotating between tackle and guard last year.

673
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: Sometimes a little bit hard for rookie to get your

674
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: feet set when you're going between guard and tackle in

675
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Speaker 1: your first season in the NFL, going up some up

676
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,959
Speaker 1: against some great defensive tackles and defensive ends at Oliver too.

677
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,919
Speaker 1: Josh Allen we this this roster is full of young

678
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: players who still have a lot to prove, but have

679
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: planted some good seeds and have shown what they can

680
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Speaker 1: do at a high level in the in the league,

681
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Speaker 1: right And I think it's gonna be fun to watch.

682
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: And I saw something else the other day about you

683
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: list all the really important players for the Buffalo Bills.

684
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: They're all very young, Josh Allen, Tremaine Edmonds, Tradavious White,

685
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins is a young guy, a ton of guys

686
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Speaker 1: that are just getting started. And then, of course, as

687
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: we've seen, the philosophy of Brandon Bean has been to

688
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: sprinkle in veterans who have proven themselves that they're proven

689
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 1: in their careers, that they are that right kind of

690
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: guy to fit into the culture here, and they bring

691
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Speaker 1: them in on these small proven deals sometimes like Tina

692
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: Seki is a great, great example. And then they've brought

693
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Speaker 1: in a couple of guys like a Star Lotulele who

694
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: is a big time contract who they got in who

695
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: has been a real stalwart inside for the Bills defense.

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Speaker 1: Guys like that, who are the veteran presidents who have

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00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: proven themselves in other places, who have been given an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to come here and be one of those pillars

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00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: of the team. But the but the franchise, the guys

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00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: that the franchise drafted in this new regime are still

701
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: very young, and only now we're starting to get into

702
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: that conversation where the guys they're gonna be up for

703
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: their second contracts. What that's going to mean to the

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Speaker 1: roster and how they're gonna do that. It's it's just

705
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: been so interesting and fun to be a part of

706
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: this team while it's been on this uptick and this

707
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: uptick and this uptick, and you see not only as

708
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Speaker 1: a group or where they've been to the playoffs two

709
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: out of the last three years, it's been fun to

710
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: watch the coaching staff develop them and players we didn't

711
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: know that need developing or could develop to be developed.

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Speaker 1: Guys like Robert Foster, guys like Duke Williams, all these

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Speaker 1: guys that have come about and say, wow, this he's

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Speaker 1: better than I thought he was gonna be. Even in

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Speaker 1: the one year that we've had with Ed Oliver, he

716
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: got so much better from week one, two three, in

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Speaker 1: two weeks fourteen fifteen, sixteen seventeen, and what a force

718
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: he was at the end of the season. So it's

719
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: been fun to see the coaching staff do that as well.

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Speaker 1: All of that stuff is on the table. It's been

721
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Speaker 1: fun to be a part of. And I think that's

722
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: why guys like our guests today Steve mary Utiars bullish

723
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 1: on the team this season. Yeah, and they want to

724
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Speaker 1: keep you talk about renewing contracts in the near future.

725
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: There's going to be a quite a few talented players

726
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: contracts that are coming up in the next year or

727
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: two that these guys are going to have to get paid,

728
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: and Brandon has came out and said it. We want

729
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: to have this core remain intact on this team for

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Speaker 1: as long as possible. And that's why they're being smart

731
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Speaker 1: about the way that they're spending their money and using

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00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: the cap spaces, because they expect that they're going to

733
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Speaker 1: have to pay some of these players in the next

734
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Speaker 1: few years that they want to keep on the team,

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00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: and they want them to be important parts of the

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Speaker 1: team for many years to come, because that's how you

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Speaker 1: build something great, is that you keep that core intact,

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Speaker 1: you keep that locker room intact, you keep that culture there,

739
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 1: and then you build around it when you need to,

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Speaker 1: right And I think it's going to be really interesting

741
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: to see the team developed. I think this team and

742
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: I said this, I said it, I've said a bunch

743
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: but everything. A lot of times I get back to

744
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: this point where I'm reminded of it that this team

745
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, while it's supposed to we're trying to

746
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: build off of what they did a year ago. This

747
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: team is going to be the twenty twenty Buffalo Bills,

748
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: not the twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills. In some ways, they

749
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: may be much much better, much improved. Josh Allen may

750
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: develop another step, and other things may happen. But it's

751
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: gonna be different faces. They're gonna be different contributors. And

752
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: while a lot of there's not as big a turnover

753
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:20,959
Speaker 1: as there was a year ago or two years ago,

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00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: there's still gonna be some new faces that we have

755
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: to get to know. And I think that getting your

756
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Speaker 1: mind around the fact that this is a different team

757
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: than it was last year, and for a lot of reasons,

758
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 1: maybe better. There's no guarantees, and I think it's still

759
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to get to know this group of

760
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty Buffalo Bills and not just say, well, it's

761
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: the same team as it was last year, because it's

762
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: not gonna be. It's not gonna be Steph Diggs. Is

763
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: gonna be a new face out there that's gonna be

764
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Speaker 1: a guy you're gonna have to get used to seeing.

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Speaker 1: You know, the guy like Josh Norman if he's the

766
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: starting other cornerback, if he's the guy opposite treadis why

767
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to get to know him and you're

768
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: gonna see him make contributions. Dawson Knox is gonna spread

769
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: his wings maybe right Tyler Croft, if he stays healthy,

770
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: he's going to contribute um all these things. And of

771
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: course this guy's like Zach Moss and aj Epanessa uh.

772
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 1: And we're gonna get a better look at Ed Oliver

773
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Speaker 1: and he's going to be a different player coming into

774
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: this year. All of that stuff is going to be

775
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: so interesting to watch development. I think that's what part

776
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: of the fun of being in the spot in the

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Speaker 1: spotlight that we're at now and getting being able to

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Speaker 1: watch him. We're gonna take a break. We also have

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Speaker 1: a caller on the line. We're gonna get to that

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Speaker 1: caller if he's so if he's so gracious as to

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Speaker 1: hang on there until we get back after this break.

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Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live presented by Kalidah Health. We

783
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: have us Steve Mary Uci and Lorenzo Alexander coming on

784
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: at the top of the hour. Stay with Us, presented

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00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

786
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Speaker 1: to the the one of Bill's lives. He's Aston Mattie glad

787
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: here killed three o'clock. We've been talking about the Bills,

788
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: how they've built their squad, some of the more underrated

789
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: or what do you think the more underrated unit of

790
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills is. We gave you some choices at

791
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: tight ends, offensive line, or linebackers. You can pick one

792
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: of your own. Though you can call us or tweet

793
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: at us. We're not posting any tweets today. We're black

794
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: out Tuesday. And we also promised after or before the

795
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Speaker 1: break that if our caller would stay on the line,

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00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 1: we would take him right away. This is David who's

797
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Speaker 1: calling in, and Maddie was talking about forty times and

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Speaker 1: about how little or how less the Bills value forty

799
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Speaker 1: times or and put importance on forty times. David, what's

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Speaker 1: your what's your point about forty times and how their

801
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: players are evaluated with it? Go ahead? Hey guys, Well,

802
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Speaker 1: I agree with Maddie for Ethanisa. I don't think it's

803
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: a you know, a top priority, but the two wide

804
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 1: receivers that we drafted were both mediocre in the forties.

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Speaker 1: My question for you was, first of all, I wanted

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Speaker 1: to make I wanted to see a couple of things.

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Speaker 1: Number one, I wanted to wish Murphy all the best.

808
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: Number two, Steve, I know you hate this stuff, but

809
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: you're my all time favorite Bill and I absolutely believe

810
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: you should be in the Hall of Fame. Now, getting

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Speaker 1: that out of the way, is forty times something that

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00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: can be improved upon, like our two rookie wide receivers.

813
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: Can that be worth with? Can they improve on that?

814
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: And numbers? Can you make a four or five guy

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Speaker 1: a four or three guy or a four or four

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00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: guy or are they pretty much who they're going to

817
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: be right now? And then, just on top of that,

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you, because I remember you as

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Speaker 1: being pretty quick, you know what your best forty time was? Yeah? Question, Okay,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot in there, David. I appreciate first of all,

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Speaker 1: as I want to know your fastest for you, let's

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Speaker 1: tart at that one. Well, back in the dark ages,

823
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: when I ran forties, they were all hand timed, so

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Speaker 1: I didn't have any electronic times, And the fastest I

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00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: was ever hand timed was when I was in junior

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Speaker 1: college and I ran a four point three whoa cheetah,

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Speaker 1: But I couldn't play professional football at that time because

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Speaker 1: I only weighed one hundred and sixty pounds, so so

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Speaker 1: you know, I was a little you can imagine I

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00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: was a little teeny when I went to as a freshman.

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Speaker 1: And this is why I wasn't recruited at all. Well

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Speaker 1: maybe not the only reason I wasn't recruited, but I

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Speaker 1: was five feet eight and one hundred and forty seven

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Speaker 1: pounds as a freshman in college. Yeah, there wasn't the

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Speaker 1: market from yes, the market for my football prowess was

836
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: not really smoking hot. So I went to a community college,

837
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Speaker 1: started lifting weights and getting in shape and put on

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Speaker 1: weight and got faster. My sophomore year, I was faster

839
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Speaker 1: than my freshman year. And so I and I got

840
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: made myself into an athlete that would get recruited by

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00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: four year schools. And I ended up at Northwestern. So

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Speaker 1: there's that story. What was the other part of David's question,

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Speaker 1: Yes you can. You can't train to get faster to

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Speaker 1: forty time. Yeah, we've heard guys about that. But here's

845
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: the thing too, And I would caution, and I'd say

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00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 1: this even if the guy wasn't a Bills fan. You

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00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: they get drafted mostly or not drafted, but they get

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00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: evaluated mostly on what they look like on film. How

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00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: fast does a guy play forty times certainly are an

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Speaker 1: indicator of some things in their ability, in their in

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00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: their sheer athletic ability, but their football playing ability is

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00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: sometimes a little bit separate or doesn't quite parallel their

853
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: athletic ability. You've seen great athletes who really can't play

854
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: or don't play fast. You've seen fast guys who play slow.

855
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of guys out there who

856
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: play significantly faster than they would time in a forty.

857
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: So that more so than maybe training, maybe than than

858
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:01,760
Speaker 1: training Gabe Davis or Isaiah Hodgens to be faster forty times,

859
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: just get them to play as fast as they can now. Uh,

860
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: A forty time is a test that guys cram to

861
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: pay to pass. Right, guys train for the forty Um,

862
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: well it might for pro football players, it might be

863
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: better not to train so you can be fast in

864
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: the forty or dash, but train in the offense and

865
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 1: running routes that you're going to be running. Train in

866
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: the offense that you're going to be playing. Um, we

867
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: don't need them to be fat. They're fast enough. Uh,

868
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 1: can they execute the offense that they're being asked him

869
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: to execute, and if they can do that, they can

870
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 1: play despite what their forty time might say that is

871
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: there anything else that we missed on date? By the way, Dave,

872
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: thanks for the call and your kind words. What else

873
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: did Dave have to say? Act I'm having trouble getting

874
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: back to all his There's a lot in there. I

875
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: think that's about it. I think I think we covered it.

876
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: And thanks for the nice words you said about about

877
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: my career. That's nice. Um, I appreciate, I agree. I

878
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,919
Speaker 1: agree with him and although he's yeah, I think you're

879
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:03,919
Speaker 1: both looney. But anyway, um So Steve Tasker, Maddy Glad.

880
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: We've got Lorenzo Alexander coming up at the top of

881
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: the hour. We're gonna talk to him. I've got to

882
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: ask him if he's put the weight back on. It's

883
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: been fifteen years, I know, but if those of you

884
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: don't know, we all do. Lorenzo came in the league

885
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:20,839
Speaker 1: as a big, three hundred pounder, right. He was a

886
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,399
Speaker 1: defensive tackle with his hand on the ground, big guy,

887
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: and they he wasn't gonna make it, but he wanted

888
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: to play special teams. He had a desire to do it,

889
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,280
Speaker 1: and he transformed himself into the two hundred and thirty

890
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: seven pounder that played for the Buffalo Bills and the

891
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: Skins and all these teams that he was a part of.

892
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: And yeah, we can all relate to being a guy,

893
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: you know, trying to put on weight, lose weight whatever.

894
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: Athletes can relate sometimes to putting on weight, but a

895
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: lot of us in you know, every day civilian life

896
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: can relate to trying to take pounds off. Can you

897
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: imagine trying to take that much weight off? Well, Lorenzo

898
00:47:58,280 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: did it, and I want to know if he can

899
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: still do it. We gotta ask him that when he

900
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: comes back on, right, you're not You're not embarrassing me

901
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: asking him that. All right, I'm gonna ask him that

902
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: we all understand in quarantine. We're all putting on quarantine.

903
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: Pous here, okay, Well said mad girl. Well said, We're

904
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: gonna take a break, come back at the top of

905
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: the hour where Lorenzo Alexander, former Buffalo Bills linebacker, is

906
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 1: gonna be Amas can't wait to talk to him. This

907
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: is Steve Tasker, Maddie glab On one Bills Live. We're

908
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: here till three o'clock. We're presented by Kalida Health on

909
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Oh Great tackle by Steve gasper Bucks

910
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: do Bucks Done Busts. We're time. Welcome back to One

911
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: Bills Live Steve Task along with Maddi Glab. We're here

912
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: till three o'clock and right now on the line we

913
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: can see him. You'll just hear him. It's our old

914
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: friend Lorenzo Alexandra in Phoenix. Lorenzo, Stephen, Maddie, thanks for

915
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: coming on. It's great seeing you. You look great. I

916
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,959
Speaker 1: appreciate it. How you guys. Then, we've been doing great,

917
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: we really have, and we're kind of keeping on keeping on.

918
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: And I wanted to ask you before we get into

919
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: the serious stuff. I told you you don't you don't

920
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: look thick. You don't look like you're putting your weight

921
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: back on. Man, how do you do that? I like

922
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: you can still play, yeah, play playing physically. I know

923
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: I want all that contact right now because I just can't.

924
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: You know, I kind of mentally had a release and

925
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: so I don't want to hit anybody. But I've been

926
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: still working out and uh, just keeping up my routine

927
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: because I like, like you said, see, I was three

928
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: hunder pads at one point and I'm not I'm not

929
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: going back to those days. I gotta stay fit, in shape.

930
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: And my competitive nature is all about being prepared for

931
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: my sons when they come of age so where they

932
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 1: can really challenge me. That's on my mind right now.

933
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: That's great. I mean, you're not gonna let your You're

934
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: not gonna let your boys beat you in anything. I'll

935
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 1: come on, is what's your philosophy? They'll never beat you

936
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: in anything. That means when they do beat your means something, right, Yeah,

937
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: they got to earn it. I mean even now with

938
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: my five year old, and I have to be intentional

939
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: about taking it light on him, right, don't you know?

940
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: I just can't give him anything. I'm just stealing that

941
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: mode of trying to win and compete. That's great. I'm

942
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: glad to hear it, and that's that's what I want

943
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:27,399
Speaker 1: to have. You And you say, I know this too.

944
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: You're you're too fresh out of it, and sometimes you

945
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: kind of it's nice to be away from it, completely

946
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 1: away from it. Everybody's completely away from it now, everything's

947
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: shut down and all that. But have you been keeping

948
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: track of what's been going on with the Bills and

949
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts? Um, Yeah, I mean, you know,

950
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,320
Speaker 1: obviously from Stefan DIDs, you know, the guys that we

951
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: got in the draft. I've been staying engaged in that

952
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: and I've been jumping on some of the Bible studies

953
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: with the guys. So I still have a lot of

954
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: relationships that I'm still cultivating. Had a chance to talk

955
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: to the linebackers, and after our show to day, I'm

956
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: even jump at heaths meeting far as special teams, and

957
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: so even though I'm not there, I'm still trying to

958
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: stay connected because the Bills felt more than just an

959
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: organization I played for. I felt like a family. Have

960
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: a lot of great connections that people that I really

961
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 1: respect and admire over there, and I just want to

962
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 1: still be a part of this journey to help them

963
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 1: hopefully achieve a Super Bowl championship. And so, like I

964
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,839
Speaker 1: told Sean and all the coaches, anytime that they want

965
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,919
Speaker 1: to lean on me, maybe to help a young guy

966
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 1: out or to talk to somebody that may be going

967
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: through something, I'm here as a resource. And so I

968
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 1: was planning to be out there, you know, during May,

969
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: but obviously things haven't gotten back to normal quite yet,

970
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: but look forward to coming out to training camp and

971
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: or being around next year during the season and just

972
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: continue to help guys to serve the team anyway I

973
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: can and the community at that as well. Zoe, we

974
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: were talking about the linebacker unit yesterday, getting into the group,

975
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 1: and obviously you have Tremaine Edmunds and Matt Milano. Those

976
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: are your core two players. You have a j. Klein

977
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:53,959
Speaker 1: coming in who will help take some of the load

978
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,399
Speaker 1: that you were able to provide on the Buffalo Bills.

979
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 1: But then you have quite a few players who played

980
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,919
Speaker 1: a part on special team last year and could earn

981
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 1: a spot on the roster because of their special teams

982
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,720
Speaker 1: to play, but also maybe be a rotational fourth player

983
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 1: in that linebacker unit. You talk about Tyrell Dodson, Corey Thompson,

984
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: Mike Belle as a new player, both Shan Joseph del

985
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:18,399
Speaker 1: Sean Phillips. Who who do you like out of that group?

986
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: Who are some of the guys that you were able

987
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: to connect with and who played a part on special teams? Yeah, well,

988
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 1: you know I had a chance to connect with all

989
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: of them some type of level. Obviously Tyrrell and Corey

990
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: play with and del Sean Mike Bell getting to know

991
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: him a little bit. Obviously he's making a transition from

992
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: safety to linebacker. But I'm really just trying to help

993
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: them all develop. And I don't know who has the

994
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,839
Speaker 1: upper hand at this point because you haven't had OTAs,

995
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,280
Speaker 1: you haven't had anything to indicate to the coaches who's

996
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: been taking those strides in the offseason. And that's why

997
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: training camp and really right now was so critical for

998
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: those guys to really get a great grasp of the

999
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,799
Speaker 1: playbook and really had it lockdown just from a I

1000
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: can read it standpoint, because once you step on that field,

1001
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: you have to really be able to focus on be

1002
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 1: able to win and dominate, and that's all about technique,

1003
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: and you can't be thinking about what I have to do.

1004
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 1: But if I pick a guy just off bat and

1005
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: probably be Cory because he's had the most experience playing

1006
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: getting some time in games, he's probably a little bit

1007
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: ahead of the curve just because of that experience. But

1008
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: at this point is anybody's game, and you can't rely

1009
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: and be complacent on what you did last season or

1010
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: where you were at, and you have to continue to

1011
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,399
Speaker 1: work and then once you get there, go out there

1012
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,320
Speaker 1: producing showcase. But it's gonna because of special teams that

1013
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: those guys that you mentioned make it and then maybe

1014
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: be able to carve out a role where, man, this

1015
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: dude is falling on special teams, let's find a role

1016
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: for him on defense to get you know, maybe ten

1017
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: snaps a game so we can utilize in there as well. Yeah,

1018
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: and I went on off on this monologue yesterday and

1019
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: Maddie was probably rolling her eyes at me about you know,

1020
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 1: you know what it's like, Lorenzo, when you're a guy

1021
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: to eat, whether you're a low round draft or even

1022
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: any kind of draft pick or a rookie free agent

1023
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 1: or somebody that brought in. If you're new to the

1024
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: team and you're standing there in line, you're doing drills,

1025
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: a linebacker drills or I was for me, it was

1026
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: wide receiver drills and stuff. And you're in training camp

1027
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: and you know there's fifty three guys gonna make it,

1028
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 1: so you know kind of it's gonna be six probably

1029
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: a six wide receiver or something. You start doing a

1030
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,839
Speaker 1: mental math and he's a well, ain't I ain't beating

1031
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 1: James lofton out And I ain't beating Andre Read out.

1032
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: And for you, it's like you ain't beating Tremaine Edmonds out.

1033
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,760
Speaker 1: I ain't beating Matt Milano out or A. J. Klein

1034
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 1: out or these guys. So you start doing the math

1035
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,800
Speaker 1: about to listen, I gotta I gotta show up somehow,

1036
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: And that's where it starts to click on you. How

1037
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: much you gotta play special teams. And my point was, listen,

1038
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: you don't get a run through special teams full speeding practice.

1039
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: You gotta when the games come. That's when you got

1040
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: to do it. And it's all about you tell me

1041
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 1: what it's about. Why how do you get a guy

1042
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: to get on that mental train? Well, I think it takes.

1043
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: Obviously it was easy for me because I was a leaving,

1044
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: breathing example of what that looked like. And so for me,

1045
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: I think that's why you have to have guys that

1046
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: are a little bit older and have come from different

1047
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: aspects of you know, being undrafted, drafted all that, because

1048
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: there's different stresses of the game as far as how

1049
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: you put your leadership together. And so for me, I

1050
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 1: was able to speak to that right and so I

1051
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: had that same thing I'm looking in front of me

1052
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: and you know, I see I see London Fletcher, I

1053
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: see a guy they drafted, Perry Riley. I see Ryan

1054
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 1: Carre again, I see Brian Rappo when I'm in Washington.

1055
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 1: And it was different guys throughout my career that I

1056
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: just knew that they were already penciled in and coaches

1057
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: trusted them to be the starters, and unless they got

1058
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: hurt or something freakish happened, there was no red way

1059
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 1: I was gonna get on the field. And so you

1060
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: have to be real with yourself at some point in

1061
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: the reality of your situation and be content with utilizing

1062
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: special teams and looking at yourself as a starter in

1063
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: that role and going out there and producing me because

1064
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 1: I think a guy's like Matt Slater has played this

1065
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 1: game yourself, he's far well, a lot of guys that

1066
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:48,760
Speaker 1: have made a career on special teams, playing ten plush years,

1067
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 1: all Pros, Pro Bowls. Man, that's a great living. And

1068
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: so you have to change your mentality sometimes and be

1069
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,279
Speaker 1: content with maybe this is what my career is, and

1070
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: then why you're why you are dominating that special teams.

1071
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: You work on your game in your position that you play,

1072
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: and that's what I was able to do. I got

1073
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: my value somewhere else, but I still wanted to play defense,

1074
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: and so I still made sure that I was ready

1075
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: when things happened, because football the invery rates one hundred

1076
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: percent at some point, especially for me last couple of years.

1077
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: Tremaine went down, Matt Malone went down, and I had

1078
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:20,720
Speaker 1: to step in, And so it's all about those guys

1079
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: being ready for when that opportunity does happen. But the

1080
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 1: only way they can earn that opportunity is by balling

1081
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 1: out on special teams and earn the trust and the

1082
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: respect for the coach and saying, hey, man, we could

1083
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 1: put this guy in because he's been balling here. We

1084
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: can trust him with more on defense. There's quite a

1085
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 1: young leader in the linebacker room now, and Tremaine Edmonds,

1086
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 1: he's heading into year three from a player's perspective, getting

1087
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 1: to be with him in that room every single day.

1088
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 1: What do you expect out of him this season? How

1089
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 1: has he taken over a leadership role? I expect, I

1090
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 1: mean greatness out of Tremaine. I mean I already know

1091
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna lead with the way he plays and the

1092
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: way he works. First, that's just who he is, and

1093
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: I think that's the best way about being a leader.

1094
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: And so he's going to evolve again and be you know,

1095
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: talks of being one of the best middle linebackers in

1096
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: the league, if not one of the best premier players

1097
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: in the league. As far as the way he plays.

1098
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: Wish that that's going to give him obviously the respect

1099
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: and I think automatic clout in a lot of ways

1100
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,439
Speaker 1: where he doesn't necessarily have to prove himself. And so

1101
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: the biggest things for Tremaine now is is to continue

1102
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: to get outside of his box because he naturally is quiet,

1103
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: and I think when you are in certain positions, the mic,

1104
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback, and then maybe certain veterans, you have to

1105
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: speak up. You just have to. It's just part of

1106
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 1: your job description, even though it may not what you

1107
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: naturally do. And so he took steps last year and

1108
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 1: that and I see him continue to do that role.

1109
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: And so you know, obviously I won't be in there

1110
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: as much, but you know, I texted it from time

1111
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: to time and just trying to encourage him to make

1112
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: sure that he's building itself up so that he knows

1113
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: that first of all, it's okay for you to say

1114
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 1: something it's okay for you to challenge people when you

1115
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: don't see things going right. When you don't when you

1116
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: have that sense like man, practice isn't going right, don't

1117
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: wait for shine, don't wait for Bob to start yelling.

1118
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: You take the lead, because when you start doing that,

1119
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: you are going to start controlling how good the team

1120
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: is going to be. And then that's winning games. When

1121
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: you pull guys together, it's just a different sense of okay,

1122
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: since of urgency because this is coming from one of

1123
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 1: our guys that we love and respect. So we're about

1124
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: to take our game to another level. Versus coaches who

1125
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 1: almost have that parent and tally where they always saying something,

1126
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna tune it out. I can't even hear

1127
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: you no more. And so that's why it's so much

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00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 1: better when leaders do it. And I know Tremaine is

1129
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: ready for that challenge because he started doing it last year. Yeah,

1130
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: when Tremaine says it where the players says it, the

1131
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 1: bar gets raised, and it's a bar that the players

1132
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: will you really make an effort to meet that. You know,

1133
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 1: when coaches say he said, well, I'll do what they

1134
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: tell me, I'll do whatever it takes to get him

1135
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: off my back. We more sorry when a players says

1136
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 1: it that that raises your own goal. I think it

1137
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: really has a tendency to affect guys differently. We're talking

1138
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: with Lorenzo Alexander. It's been a strange offseason, starting with

1139
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen pandemic. You know, it's it's gonna be hard

1140
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:01,439
Speaker 1: for these guys to take it up on themselves, take

1141
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: the ownership of their own readiness. We've talked a little bit.

1142
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: You know, guys are getting together. You love to see it,

1143
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,040
Speaker 1: and guys have done it for a long time. But man,

1144
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: how much I think a lot of it's gonna depend

1145
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 1: on this Lorenzo, But how much of a team's success

1146
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: this season, if let's take it for granted again, to

1147
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: play sixteen games, they're gonna play preseason games, this season's

1148
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: gonna happen like they think it should or in some way.

1149
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: How much of the success of the teams are gonna

1150
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 1: depend on these guys now getting together, getting this done,

1151
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: taking care of I mean, it's kinda false. So much

1152
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: I think, more so than ever, on the players. Well yeah, well,

1153
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: I mean, and you can even go back to the

1154
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: lockout year in twenty and eleven where guys were doing

1155
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 1: some of the similar things, and that pays off. And

1156
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: I think it definitely works for at least chemistry and

1157
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 1: understanding guys obviously meeting new guys, the rookies or some

1158
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: young guys Stephandine's coming in and working with Josh and

1159
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 1: meeting to other people and so you start being relationships.

1160
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 1: But I think the key to success for this team

1161
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: and any and any team in the league is going

1162
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 1: to be continuity. And what Sean has really established over

1163
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 1: the last three years, building that environment, building that foundation,

1164
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: and build this team really from the ground up, and

1165
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 1: that is what's going to carry them in having success

1166
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 1: early in the season, especially those first four to five

1167
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: games when it's so much about technique, chemistry, being comfortable

1168
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 1: because the defense has been in place, the office have

1169
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: been in place for two years, and so you don't

1170
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 1: it's not a huge learning curve. You just have to

1171
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:27,959
Speaker 1: help guys that may be a little bit behind cash

1172
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 1: them up. And that's why I think veteran teams, head

1173
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 1: coaches that have been around for a lot longer are

1174
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: going to have an advantage, especially early on. And so

1175
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: I see this team, you know, being able to do

1176
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 1: great things because of that nucleus that have on offense

1177
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:41,480
Speaker 1: and defense and be able to catapult some of the

1178
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: things they're doing now that's a little bit untraditional because

1179
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: of COVID. That's going to help them have a fast

1180
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 1: start and be able to sustain that and get better

1181
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 1: as a see the continues Zoe being a part of

1182
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 1: the NFLPA. The world is hurting right now for good reason.

1183
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 1: Racial injustice, racial inequality. It's a topic of conversation this week.

1184
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: It should be a topic of conversation always. Being a

1185
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: part of the NFLPA and just the leader that you

1186
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: have been in the Buffalo those community and your community.

1187
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: What's going on to help educate players? What are what's

1188
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: the players union doing to help educate and inspire others?

1189
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 1: And so what can we be doing to help? Yeah,

1190
01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:23,720
Speaker 1: I mean it's so much obviously that's transpired. I mean

1191
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:28,440
Speaker 1: during COVID. You know, um that is has been horrendous.

1192
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 1: I mean you just look back and you know George

1193
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 1: Lord of mont Aubrey and so many others, uh that

1194
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: we don't even know about. And this really is it's

1195
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 1: not even like a new issue. I mean it's a

1196
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: systemic issue. That dates back to the inception of our country.

1197
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 1: And uh, there's a lot of systems that have been

1198
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 1: built around racism, UM that ultimately need to be broken down.

1199
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's it's it's such a layered

1200
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 1: um issue. UM. You know, so many moving parts to it. UM.

1201
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: I think we understand what the root cause of it is,

1202
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: you know, the racism, bigotry, But it always comes down

1203
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:07,400
Speaker 1: to how do you impact the and how do you

1204
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 1: infiltrate these systems? How do you change people's hearts so

1205
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 1: that the systems that we do have implied that's supposed

1206
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 1: to be intended to keep society safe, make sure that

1207
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 1: people are are able to live a great life. How

1208
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 1: are they applied fairly? And so that is what you know,

1209
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 1: we always struggle with, you know, and how and how

1210
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 1: do you go about about doing that? Because for me,

1211
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 1: you know, I always try to serve the community of youth,

1212
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 1: you know, try to help them understand this is how

1213
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: you become successful. Maybe minimize your chances of being a

1214
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: George Floord. But at the end of the day, it

1215
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: has nothing about to do with who you are. I

1216
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 1: can't change my skin color, you know. I was having

1217
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: a conversation with somebody the other day. You know, I

1218
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 1: have I graduated from cal Berkeley, play fifteen years in

1219
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: the NFL. You know, I serve the community. But if

1220
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 1: I go out right now and I live in Paradise

1221
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 1: Valley and somebody's uncomfortable with me and I'm driving around,

1222
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 1: they may pull me over because I look like I

1223
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 1: don't belong there. I could easily be George Floyd because

1224
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 1: they don't know who I am, because I leave with

1225
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: my color and my skin. And so, you know, what,

1226
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: what can we do? I mean, it's it's really I think,

1227
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 1: at the very basic levels, no matter you know, white

1228
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:17,720
Speaker 1: black Latino, we I mean, I have a lot of

1229
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: friends and divert you have to have those hard conversations.

1230
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: You have to hold people in your circle when they

1231
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 1: say things that is borderline racist, you have to hold

1232
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 1: them accountable for that. Hey, why are you Why are

1233
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 1: you even saying that? Why are you thinking like that?

1234
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 1: Because that little roote thing can evolve to a George

1235
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,440
Speaker 1: Floyd incident. And so I think at the very you know,

1236
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 1: basic level, we can do that. We can be intentional

1237
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 1: about going out and serving certain communities and organizations that

1238
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 1: are trying to create change. I think we can be

1239
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 1: very intentional about and aware about who we vote in

1240
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 1: and not just worry about is this person gonna help

1241
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 1: me make a little bit more money. You know it's

1242
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,320
Speaker 1: he a Republican or Democrat, But how are they going

1243
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 1: to impact our community and world as a whole, And

1244
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 1: not just for your own view but for everybody. And

1245
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 1: so we have to be um less, selfish in that manner,

1246
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 1: and selfless and really see as a politician a great

1247
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 1: person as well, because we put these people in power

1248
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 1: that are you know, maybe have great ideas but are

1249
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:24,480
Speaker 1: not are bad people in a sense. And so you

1250
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 1: have to you have to do a little bit of homework.

1251
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 1: You have to go out and really get a good

1252
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: sense of people. And and it happens on a local

1253
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 1: level or state level, on a federal level. And so

1254
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:38,080
Speaker 1: wherever you find yourself at UM, use your leverage and

1255
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 1: your platform and your resources to create the change. Because

1256
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 1: I don't have access to everybody, you know, UM, and

1257
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,360
Speaker 1: and your message may come across differently to somebody. You

1258
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:50,120
Speaker 1: explained it too. For example, I'm trying to tell somebody

1259
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 1: somebody who's might see or you are angry black dude,

1260
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:54,480
Speaker 1: but Matt, if you tell them it may come across

1261
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 1: it's received differently because the guard is let down. You know,

1262
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 1: they don't feel attacked. So you know this use your platform,

1263
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 1: impacted your social circles, and you have I think also

1264
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:08,520
Speaker 1: we have to be consistent about it, right. I think

1265
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: we're so galvanized by events and then over time we

1266
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 1: allow that energy to dissipate and then we move on

1267
01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:17,960
Speaker 1: to the next thing. Just like in media, right, you know,

1268
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: what's the next hot story, and things last twenty four hours.

1269
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:23,720
Speaker 1: This is something that's going to take a lot of

1270
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 1: time and energy, consistently from a lot of different people,

1271
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:32,320
Speaker 1: a lot of different groups, to really change the way

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Speaker 1: things are implemented in our world and the way people

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Speaker 1: think in our world about certain groups of people, and

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Speaker 1: and and it's just it is what it is, and

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Speaker 1: that's my responsibility just as much as it's yours, because

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Speaker 1: there are there are people on both sides that have

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Speaker 1: that that lead with fear and anger instead of out

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Speaker 1: of love and relationship. Trying to understand both sides. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Mighty and I were talking yesterday during the opening of

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Speaker 1: our show that how lucky we are to have been

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Speaker 1: put in an environ where we are, we are integrated. Um,

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Speaker 1: we're black people, white people. We work with black players

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Speaker 1: who were with black office people staffers. And of course

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Speaker 1: I had the history with I played with you know,

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, so I had your close buddies who

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Speaker 1: I still have. And and the thing about it is

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Speaker 1: that we have so many white people who say, well,

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Speaker 1: I haven't done anything wrong. I don't you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't have that. It's not about not having done anything wrong,

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Speaker 1: it's about doing something right. You've got to take you've

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Speaker 1: got to really get up off the couch and you've

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Speaker 1: got to take part and actively say, Hey, that ain't

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Speaker 1: gonna fly. Uh, that attitude ain't gonna fly around me.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe that. I've got friends who that would

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Speaker 1: offend and who I would be offended for. And I

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Speaker 1: don't want that. I don't want that around me. Um,

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Speaker 1: you're wrong to think this, Uh, to take an active

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Speaker 1: stand against it, even in the smallest, most insignificant places.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, hopefully, and I said this earlier in this show,

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you pass that value system onto your kids. You

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Speaker 1: pass that on too them, not not this secretly, this

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01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:05,640
Speaker 1: secret humorous that whatever joke or the secret opinion, the

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01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:08,440
Speaker 1: opinion you don't say, but you really feel that's not

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01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 1: You don't want to pass that on to your kids.

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Speaker 1: You want to pass on something that's genuine. It's something

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Speaker 1: that doesn't fly on a belief that you have, that

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Speaker 1: you hold and that you're willing to fight for even

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Speaker 1: though you're not the one affected by it. And that's

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01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: that's a hard thing for people to do because it

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01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 1: takes little effort on something that they may or may

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01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 1: never get benefit from, and it's it's really it's difficult,

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Speaker 1: but it needs to be done. And I think maybe

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Speaker 1: that's one message I hear from this from this round

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Speaker 1: of racial unrest that I've never heard before, and I

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Speaker 1: think it's a step further that we need to go

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Speaker 1: and maybe maintain as this thing moves forward. I want

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Speaker 1: to ask you too, you're a part of the union,

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Speaker 1: the players union. What have they what message have they

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01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:56,360
Speaker 1: been given to you or that you're trying to promote

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Speaker 1: that that may help things along. I think the biggest

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Speaker 1: thing the union is trying to do is just trying

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Speaker 1: to encourage players to use their platforms to speak out

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01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:07,439
Speaker 1: and really mobilize, strategized and bring people together. As we've

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Speaker 1: been saying to collectively and collaboratively to attack this issue.

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Speaker 1: I think even like on a local level with the

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Speaker 1: Bills Organization, we have a group of guys that are

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Speaker 1: part of the social Justice Initiative where we have traditionally

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Speaker 1: just really focused on the community as far as getting

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Speaker 1: back to low income homes, and so now what we're

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Speaker 1: trying to do and I think there's going to be

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Speaker 1: a little shift up also challenging and come alongside of

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Speaker 1: you know, like the DA's office, you know, the police chief,

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Speaker 1: the mayor, and seeing how we can continue to utilize

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Speaker 1: our platform to create some transparency, some accountability, and some

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Speaker 1: real change in our communities. So we can nip it

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Speaker 1: at the bud at a local level, and if we

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01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: can see that mimics because I know this people are

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Speaker 1: doing it, but if we can duplicate that around the

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Speaker 1: country and start on a grassroots, local level, we can

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Speaker 1: create a lot more change quicker because on a local level,

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Speaker 1: that's where a lot of the people are able to

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Speaker 1: you know, give out the resources, they implement, you know,

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01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: the legal system on groups differently, and so if we

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Speaker 1: put people in place that are going to do it effutably,

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01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,200
Speaker 1: then we can start seeing justice done, we can see

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01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:15,200
Speaker 1: more resources being provided equally, and you change things that

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Speaker 1: on both ends. At the same time, we're serving the

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Speaker 1: community and also trying to change the systems that are

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Speaker 1: creating the systems that we see and you know in

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Speaker 1: our communities. And so I think we're gonna start taking

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01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:29,840
Speaker 1: over a dual approaching and holistic approach as far as

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Speaker 1: how we attack it. But you know, I have nothing

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01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: but respect for obviously the Bills organizations as far as

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01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:38,160
Speaker 1: being supportive of the players, trying to figure out how

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Speaker 1: we can do this and really being consistent. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Gretchen and Michelle and Megan, that whole team. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they've reach out to me all this ain't are we

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01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:47,719
Speaker 1: doing the right thing? What do we need to do?

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Speaker 1: How do how can we do it? Who can we

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Speaker 1: put you in contact with? And so I really love

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Speaker 1: the passion about it. It's not they're not just doing

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Speaker 1: a pr stuff when they put out a statement over

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Speaker 1: at one Bill's driving out. So I hopefully hopefully that

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01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:02,320
Speaker 1: is being that same heart is and fetch us around

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Speaker 1: the entire league and other organizations that have the platform

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Speaker 1: and ability to call people out, because that's what we need.

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Speaker 1: We need people that have the leverage and the insight

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Speaker 1: and the connection the relationships to where people really will

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Speaker 1: listen with its talkers and change. Lorenzo, I can't tell

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Speaker 1: you how fun it is to see it, man. Thanks

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01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:21,160
Speaker 1: so much for coming on. Man, you look great. Glad

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01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 1: you're still connected with the team. I'm glad you came

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01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:25,080
Speaker 1: on with us today. It's so good to see. We

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01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 1: miss you man. Thanks appreciation. We're gonna be back Steve.

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Speaker 1: Mary She's coming on later in the show. Lorenzo, we'll

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01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:33,719
Speaker 1: talk to you later. We'll have you on again. Maddie

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Speaker 1: glabs Steve Tasker. We're here One Bills Live, represented by

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01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 1: Kalidah Health and this is what Buffalo Bill's Radio. Well,

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01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 1: welcome back to One Bill's Lives. Steve Tasker, Officers, Maddi glabber.

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Speaker 1: Just get off of the phone or skype with Lorenzo.

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01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 1: Alexander had a lot to say about the Bills team

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01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:55,720
Speaker 1: this year, what the guys are doing, and how the

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01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 1: young linebackers are gonna do. We asked him about our

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01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:02,720
Speaker 1: question of the day about the most underrated unit on

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills twenty twenty. Asked him about the linebackers.

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Speaker 1: We talked about them at length yesterday and he was

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01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:10,439
Speaker 1: kind of long lines with us, Maddie. The young guys,

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01:11:10,520 --> 01:11:12,720
Speaker 1: the guys down the roster, they're gonna have to play

1389
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:15,080
Speaker 1: special teams to get on this this squad because there's

1390
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:16,559
Speaker 1: a lot of really good players at the top of

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01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 1: the depth chart. Definitely, That's how he earned his weight

1392
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 1: until the league. That's how he earned his starting spot

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01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 1: in a linebacker role. And that's what Tyler Madakavich is

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01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: trying to currently do with the Buffalo Bills. He knows

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01:11:31,040 --> 01:11:33,240
Speaker 1: that it's gonna have to be through special teams for

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Speaker 1: him to get into some of those snaps on defense

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01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 1: as well. And i've that's what you gotta do sometimes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But man, I could talk to Lorenzo all day long.

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01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 1: He's so great when he's on the show. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that it's it's interesting too, because if

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01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:53,599
Speaker 1: you want to know, if we're telling the truth, Lorenzo

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01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:56,160
Speaker 1: lived it. That's one of the reasons I think the

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01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:58,400
Speaker 1: coaching staff loves the guys so much. And he even

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01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 1: alluded a couple of times during our conversation with him

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01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:06,719
Speaker 1: just a moment ago that he's still in close contact

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01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:09,120
Speaker 1: with the coaching staff here in Buffalo with Leslie Frasier,

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01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:11,559
Speaker 1: with Sean McDermott about you know, some of the young

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01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:13,559
Speaker 1: guys he can mentor, or some of the people whose

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01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:18,120
Speaker 1: story would help his story would help them navigate the

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01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:19,680
Speaker 1: early part of their career, get him off on the

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01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:22,240
Speaker 1: right foot, start to mentor them in a way that

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01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 1: would make them more like Lorenzo a just an outstanding

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01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:31,360
Speaker 1: guy and certainly one of the guys that you you

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01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:35,320
Speaker 1: love having the young men on your football team mentored by,

1415
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 1: and hopefully that gets a chance, we get a chance

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01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 1: to to have that happen for a long long time.

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Speaker 1: We're coming up, hopefully in this half hour. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have Steve Murrayuchi on NFL Network, analyst, former head coach

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01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 1: of the forty nine Ers and Detroit Lyons. Also he's

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Speaker 1: on Twitter as well at Steve Murrayuchi. For those of

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Speaker 1: you wondering, we're not posting anything on Twitter today because

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01:12:57,680 --> 01:12:59,720
Speaker 1: of a what's called a Tuesday blackout. We want to

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01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:02,720
Speaker 1: stop being part of the distraction on social media, and

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01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,120
Speaker 1: so we're gonna do that. We're gonna keep up with

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01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:07,640
Speaker 1: our traditional distraction of talking about the NFL and the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills on radio. Thanks for being with us now

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Speaker 1: here on the line with us. Steve Mariucci, NFL Analyst,

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Speaker 1: NFL Network Analyst. He's a former head coach in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League for both the forty nine ers and

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Steve, this is Mattie Glavin Steve Tasker

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01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:24,400
Speaker 1: up here in Buffalo. Thanks for coming on up on

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01:13:24,439 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 1: the radio with you. Bet Hi, Mattie. Good to be

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01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 1: on with you. Hi. Steve, how you guys been. We're

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Speaker 1: doing great. Are you making it through the pandemic? Okay? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I we're just kind of laying low like

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Speaker 1: everybody else. I'm in northern California, Santa Clara County, and

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01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:47,680
Speaker 1: we are county was pretty much the first one in

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Speaker 1: the country to close it down and and we still

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Speaker 1: are with restrictions. You know, it's been a long time

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01:13:54,920 --> 01:13:58,040
Speaker 1: up here, but you know, we just do the best

1441
01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 1: we can. We are working with the NFL at work.

1442
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:02,760
Speaker 1: We do shows from our home, as you guys do,

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01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:06,080
Speaker 1: and so you know, we do the best we can

1444
01:14:06,160 --> 01:14:09,240
Speaker 1: with what we have and hopefully at some point we'll

1445
01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:13,960
Speaker 1: climb out of this. You've coached in the NFL before,

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01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 1: So how would you handle this current situation with a

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01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:20,599
Speaker 1: team with COVID nineteen. There's so much uncertainty. You know,

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01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 1: mini camps were online, this year's zoom calls after zoom

1449
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 1: calls and team meetings and you're working out on your own.

1450
01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: Hopefully training camp will start on time. Hopefully the season

1451
01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:35,960
Speaker 1: will start on time. But with the uncertainty right now,

1452
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:39,719
Speaker 1: how would you keep the players informed and in shape

1453
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 1: and together? Yeah, well they're not so much together, that's

1454
01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:50,080
Speaker 1: for sure. Physically, some quarterbacks and receivers are getting together

1455
01:14:50,680 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 1: throwing the ball around just a little bit to time

1456
01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 1: some things up that I think the teams that are

1457
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:00,599
Speaker 1: at a disadvantage are the new who is the new

1458
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 1: head coaches? Typically you get a couple extra weeks to

1459
01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:08,639
Speaker 1: go into OTAs that get your systems in place. Well

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01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 1: that that really can't happen right, So everybody's on zoom

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01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 1: and teaching and coaching the best way they can, much

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Speaker 1: like mu's like college universities and schools, all schools right

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01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: now are teaching online and you can get some things done.

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01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:25,559
Speaker 1: You can teach your playbook and your concepts and some

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01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:28,840
Speaker 1: philosophies and some of those types of things. What they're

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01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:31,320
Speaker 1: missing though, is you know, being on the field together

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Speaker 1: and timing up the passing game and having the physical

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01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:37,920
Speaker 1: work and pass protections and coverage and those kinds of

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Speaker 1: things that hopefully they're working out on their own. You

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Speaker 1: never get the same kind of workout when you're when

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Speaker 1: you're over at the high school by yourself, versus having

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Speaker 1: a mini camp or a training camp. So that's where

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Speaker 1: we're behind the physical practice of it all. But I

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01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:55,720
Speaker 1: think the mental part of it and the teaching has

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Speaker 1: been going on. Teams have found a real good way

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Speaker 1: to teach online and have meetings periodically, and I know

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Speaker 1: they're doing a good job of it. Let's just hope

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Speaker 1: we find a way to start on time in July

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Speaker 1: and the July where training camp can take place. And

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Speaker 1: I know we're watching these other sports, you know in

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Speaker 1: the other countries too, where sports are beginning without fans

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01:16:22,479 --> 01:16:25,479
Speaker 1: to see how that goes. The viewing audience seems to

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01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:28,360
Speaker 1: be pretty tiring. Good on television, it's not the same

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01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: as being in the stadium, But um, you know, we

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01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:32,720
Speaker 1: have to kind of wait and see another month or

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01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:35,840
Speaker 1: two where this goes. We're talking with Steve Murray, usually

1487
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: former NFL head coach with the Niners and the and

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01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:40,600
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. I gotta I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: you also about your words that you said on the

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01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 1: NFL network. You're pretty bullish on the Buffalo Bills, and

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01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 1: I know there's could be a lot of reasons. Work.

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01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 1: We talk Buffalo Bills all the time here, so we know,

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01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:53,879
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen's getting better, the coach, the GM,

1494
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:56,840
Speaker 1: the roster is at a point. What do all those

1495
01:16:56,960 --> 01:17:01,160
Speaker 1: Is there a kind of a ConFlat aggration of events

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01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:03,439
Speaker 1: that have come together to make you so bullish or

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01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 1: is there one overriding reason. Yeah, there's never one reason.

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01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 1: I don't think. As you know, it's a football, the

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01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: ultimate team sport, and a lot of things have to

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01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 1: come together. A lot of coaches and players and front

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01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:21,320
Speaker 1: office moves and draft picks and free agent signings and

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01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 1: who do I keep, who do I let go? Who

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01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 1: is in my division? Right? I mean, all those things

1504
01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 1: really take place. But it just seems to me that

1505
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:35,080
Speaker 1: the stars are beginning to align for the Buffalo Bills

1506
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 1: in the AFC East. You know, the Patriots can't possibly

1507
01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:43,320
Speaker 1: win another division. They already have eleven in a row.

1508
01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:46,559
Speaker 1: How can they possibly win another one without Tom Brady

1509
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:49,040
Speaker 1: and a lot of guys that have left that team.

1510
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:52,880
Speaker 1: If they do, Bill Belichick just crowned them as the

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01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:54,639
Speaker 1: best coach ever in the history of the world. Put

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01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:57,519
Speaker 1: them in all of Fame tomorrow. But but so so,

1513
01:17:57,560 --> 01:18:00,880
Speaker 1: I think they take a step back and the Buffalo Bills.

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01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:03,599
Speaker 1: It's not just Josh Allen. And I like Josh Allen

1515
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:06,400
Speaker 1: a lot um He's getting better, He's gonna be in

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01:18:06,439 --> 01:18:09,000
Speaker 1: his third year. This is when, this is when it's

1517
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 1: time to really, you know, be the face and the

1518
01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 1: voice and the leader and the producer on that football team.

1519
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:17,160
Speaker 1: And I think he will. And I like what they've done,

1520
01:18:17,240 --> 01:18:20,439
Speaker 1: you know, you know, adding a Stefon Diggs is really

1521
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:24,080
Speaker 1: kind of a great debt they you know, this year

1522
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:26,639
Speaker 1: to help Josh out. But they've they've done a good

1523
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:28,680
Speaker 1: job in the draft, you know, with Ed Oliver and

1524
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:32,960
Speaker 1: Cody Ford and Devin Singletary last year. That all adds up.

1525
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:36,439
Speaker 1: And who else did they sign? Mario Addison and you know,

1526
01:18:36,479 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 1: all kinds of guys Josh Norman and and you know

1527
01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 1: so and even you know, with a great defense, and

1528
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: they do have a great defense, he's still add to

1529
01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:47,679
Speaker 1: it with a j F Vanessa from Iowa. You know, so,

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01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:49,840
Speaker 1: you know, I think I then you've got a really

1531
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:53,360
Speaker 1: good chance, bar you know, some significant injuries. There's some

1532
01:18:53,479 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 1: confidence that the fans know it. Um, they're in a

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01:18:56,560 --> 01:19:00,200
Speaker 1: good position, uh you know, to to to really make

1534
01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:02,880
Speaker 1: a push. They were ten and six last year and

1535
01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:05,080
Speaker 1: they should be a better team than that this year.

1536
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: Better than ten and six is really saying something. Because

1537
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:10,840
Speaker 1: you win eleven twelve games in the National Football League,

1538
01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:15,200
Speaker 1: you've got a real chance to go deep. What about culture?

1539
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 1: I mean, players and players and coaches referred to that

1540
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:20,559
Speaker 1: and it's one of the things that has been the

1541
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:24,599
Speaker 1: overriding overarching message to fans from one Bill's drive has

1542
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 1: been Sean mcdermot's effort to build culture. And we've had

1543
01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:30,439
Speaker 1: You know, there are people in the media and certain

1544
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:32,680
Speaker 1: fans of course casual fans who's thinking, you know, what

1545
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 1: are they talking about that? Is it really that important?

1546
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:36,639
Speaker 1: You know, these guys get paid a lot of money.

1547
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:39,280
Speaker 1: They're going to show up and play anyway. Why don't

1548
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:41,639
Speaker 1: you could you speak from moment as a head former

1549
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:45,479
Speaker 1: head coaches as to how big a difference culture can

1550
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:50,200
Speaker 1: make and why. Yeah, that's a real a. That's a

1551
01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:52,840
Speaker 1: good question, that's a deep question, and the answer is

1552
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:58,719
Speaker 1: very broad. Having coached in several organizations in the National

1553
01:19:58,760 --> 01:20:02,160
Speaker 1: Football League, coach at the Green Bay Packers. I wasn't

1554
01:20:02,160 --> 01:20:04,600
Speaker 1: the head coach, but I was in the I was

1555
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 1: in the building. I was a coach there, and I

1556
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:09,360
Speaker 1: knew what the culture was. Uh. Same with coaching the

1557
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:12,400
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers. And those are a couple

1558
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 1: of organizations whose culture is a winning culture. Why is that? Well,

1559
01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:22,040
Speaker 1: they've they've They've been lucky enough for various reasons to

1560
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:26,640
Speaker 1: have winning seasons and Super Bowls and success and expectations

1561
01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:31,400
Speaker 1: that are high, and that permeates through your coaches and players.

1562
01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:35,000
Speaker 1: It's expected. It's a certain way of life. It's not

1563
01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:37,679
Speaker 1: just with the players and coaches. It's everybody in the building.

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01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:41,759
Speaker 1: You know that. It's every secretary, every janitor, every every

1565
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: person in personnel, you name that. Everybody feels like, hey,

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01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:49,080
Speaker 1: we are good, We've earned this, we work hard, we

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01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:52,639
Speaker 1: do it the right way, we're professional, and we've won

1568
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 1: before and we'll win again. And then then I coached

1569
01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 1: with the Detroit Lions. Great organization, great people, but they

1570
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:04,679
Speaker 1: haven't had a lot of success over the years, different reasons. Um,

1571
01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:07,680
Speaker 1: you know, tough division, you know, all of those things.

1572
01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:11,160
Speaker 1: And so there's a difference between expecting to win in

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01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:16,799
Speaker 1: in being that championship caliber organization and hoping and trying

1574
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:21,479
Speaker 1: to become that organization. And sometimes it takes years. Sometimes

1575
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:25,759
Speaker 1: it takes several years of success in winning to turn

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01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:29,720
Speaker 1: that culture around into a winning culture. And Detroit's making

1577
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:34,320
Speaker 1: every opportunity and every every effort to do that, and uh,

1578
01:21:34,479 --> 01:21:36,680
Speaker 1: and I think they're headed in the right direction. But

1579
01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 1: it's just been hard over the last century, let's face it. Um,

1580
01:21:41,439 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 1: So the Buffalo Bills have had their share of success.

1581
01:21:45,280 --> 01:21:47,840
Speaker 1: You know, how hard is it to go to four

1582
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:51,400
Speaker 1: Super Bowls in a row. That's unbelievable. And so, you know,

1583
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:55,480
Speaker 1: they've they've had the misfortune of having a great organization

1584
01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 1: with the with the Patriots in the same darned division.

1585
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:02,479
Speaker 1: And now maybe just maybe Patriots take a step back.

1586
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:06,559
Speaker 1: We'll see, But the Buffalo Bill seems they seem to

1587
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 1: have been doing the right things with personnel, with coaching staff,

1588
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:14,720
Speaker 1: with continuity, with the blue collar attitude, with hey, we're

1589
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:17,200
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna be the We're gonna be the tough

1590
01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:20,120
Speaker 1: guy here and win and push people around because we

1591
01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 1: expect to win. And so I just like their chances.

1592
01:22:23,120 --> 01:22:25,800
Speaker 1: I think they're doing everything the right way right now.

1593
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 1: You said on NFL Network that Josh Allen will make

1594
01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:32,799
Speaker 1: the biggest leap of the quarterbacks from the twenty eighteen

1595
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:36,240
Speaker 1: draft class, aside from who they've added around him, the

1596
01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:39,360
Speaker 1: weapons that they've put around Josh Allen, why do you

1597
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:42,960
Speaker 1: think he's primed to make a big leap entering his

1598
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:47,479
Speaker 1: third season in the NFL. Yeah, you know the other

1599
01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: guys too. You're talking about the draft class eighteen draft class,

1600
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: who were talking about Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, is that right?

1601
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:04,679
Speaker 1: And Josh Rosen and Lamar Jackson. Oh and Lamar Yeah,

1602
01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:08,240
Speaker 1: And it's hard for Lamar to make a leap um,

1603
01:23:08,479 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 1: you know, he's uh, he's he leaped already, right, That's right.

1604
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:16,360
Speaker 1: But I just think this is such a team sport

1605
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:19,639
Speaker 1: that you're supporting cast in. Your teammates have a lot

1606
01:23:19,680 --> 01:23:22,800
Speaker 1: to do with your success. Let's face it, Quarterbacks don't

1607
01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:25,479
Speaker 1: do it by themselves. And I think I think Josh

1608
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:27,800
Speaker 1: has the best defense of all these guys that we're

1609
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:30,800
Speaker 1: talking about which which means you don't have to take

1610
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:33,720
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps from behind. It it's harder to

1611
01:23:33,760 --> 01:23:36,679
Speaker 1: play from behind in this league. When you're playing from

1612
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:39,200
Speaker 1: you know, with a lead, you know you got everything

1613
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:41,439
Speaker 1: you want to do in your playbook, run, pass, play,

1614
01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:43,559
Speaker 1: acts and screen and draw. You can do whatever you

1615
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 1: want to do and be good with the ball and

1616
01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:48,599
Speaker 1: you can win. But when you're having to play from

1617
01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:52,320
Speaker 1: behind because your defense is terrible, that's a disadvantage for

1618
01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:55,280
Speaker 1: some of these young quarterbacks. Okay, I think the Bills

1619
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:59,080
Speaker 1: have the young the best defense first of all. That

1620
01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:03,479
Speaker 1: really helps, That really helps Josh. I think that he's, uh,

1621
01:24:03,520 --> 01:24:05,800
Speaker 1: you know, outside of Lamar Jackson, he's probably the most

1622
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 1: athletic guy that we're talking about in terms of escaping

1623
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:11,800
Speaker 1: and standing plays and running with the ball and making

1624
01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:14,599
Speaker 1: first downs with his legs and all of that. And

1625
01:24:14,600 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 1: and in in this third year, I think, you know,

1626
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:19,960
Speaker 1: adding adding some weapons like gigs and I like their

1627
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:23,519
Speaker 1: running backs. Um, you know, I think that they're gonna

1628
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:25,679
Speaker 1: you know, Zach Moss is a good player from Utah

1629
01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:27,640
Speaker 1: that they added. It would be a nice little one

1630
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:31,320
Speaker 1: two punch with Devin Singletary and yelled in and I mean, geez,

1631
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:33,920
Speaker 1: he's just got a lot of things going for him.

1632
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:35,800
Speaker 1: So I you know, I had I think they're all

1633
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:38,519
Speaker 1: going to take a leap in their third year. Um,

1634
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:43,280
Speaker 1: and then uh, you know Ben Ben hopefully h uh.

1635
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:46,679
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's what everybody expects and he becomes

1636
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 1: their franchise quarterback for a long long time. Steve, thanks

1637
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:53,639
Speaker 1: for this. We appreciate it. We know everybody's got busy

1638
01:24:53,640 --> 01:24:56,160
Speaker 1: in their own kind of agenda going on these days.

1639
01:24:56,280 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: Is it's uh tumultuous times we're living in, But thank

1640
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 1: you so much for takeing in some time and being

1641
01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:04,040
Speaker 1: with us. All Right, guys, well keep the faith and

1642
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:08,479
Speaker 1: hopefully as as as June progresses here, we can we

1643
01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:13,320
Speaker 1: can you know, have better days. Huh, but hopefully so,

1644
01:25:14,960 --> 01:25:19,000
Speaker 1: you bet, you bet. Steve Marryuchi, NFL Network analyst, former

1645
01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine Ers Detroit head coach. He's also

1646
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:25,920
Speaker 1: on Twitter at at Steve Maryucchi. He's on the NFL Network.

1647
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:27,920
Speaker 1: He's great and he's a fun guy to listen to,

1648
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:31,040
Speaker 1: and we appreciate him. Coming on. We're gonna take a break,

1649
01:25:31,080 --> 01:25:33,439
Speaker 1: Maddie Glab Steve Tasker here one Bills Live. We're here

1650
01:25:33,560 --> 01:25:35,920
Speaker 1: till three o'clock. We're presented by Collide to Health and

1651
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

1652
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:48,439
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker along with Maddie Glab. We'd like to thank

1653
01:25:48,479 --> 01:25:51,040
Speaker 1: Steve Marucci for coming on last segment and talking about

1654
01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:53,000
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. He really thinks the Bills are gonna

1655
01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:55,320
Speaker 1: be great. I mean he's he's very high on him.

1656
01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:57,400
Speaker 1: He thinks Josh Allen's going to be a much different

1657
01:25:57,479 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 1: kind of player. Uh and the weapons they've got a

1658
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:01,960
Speaker 1: around him with the culture is going to be hard

1659
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:07,519
Speaker 1: to be And we also have a question of the

1660
01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:10,639
Speaker 1: Day that goes out to Bill's fans if you want

1661
01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:12,680
Speaker 1: to tweet out as you can, or if you just

1662
01:26:12,720 --> 01:26:15,639
Speaker 1: want to give us a call, which today on Blackout Tuesday,

1663
01:26:16,479 --> 01:26:19,240
Speaker 1: we might rather have you just call us. Next half hour,

1664
01:26:19,240 --> 01:26:21,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna take some phone calls and the and the

1665
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:24,320
Speaker 1: question of the day is what's the most underrated unit

1666
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:26,559
Speaker 1: on the Bill's roster? Is it tight ends? Is it

1667
01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:30,759
Speaker 1: offensive line or linebackers? Tight end? Offensive line or linebacker?

1668
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:33,439
Speaker 1: And of course if you think it's another unit, you

1669
01:26:33,479 --> 01:26:38,040
Speaker 1: can absolutely chime in with that. Let's see what else

1670
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:40,400
Speaker 1: we got coming up, Maddie. On the next half hour,

1671
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:43,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into the tight Ends group, talk about

1672
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:47,400
Speaker 1: what they've got going on, who's on the bubble, who

1673
01:26:47,479 --> 01:26:50,040
Speaker 1: do we want to see more of this this season,

1674
01:26:50,920 --> 01:26:53,680
Speaker 1: who's prime to have a breakout year. So we'll get

1675
01:26:53,720 --> 01:26:55,960
Speaker 1: into the tight Ends, talk about what we thought of

1676
01:26:56,040 --> 01:26:59,320
Speaker 1: them from last year, talk about expectations for this season,

1677
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:02,800
Speaker 1: and we're gonna hit y'all with our top five of

1678
01:27:02,840 --> 01:27:05,719
Speaker 1: the week. This is going to be a more fun segment,

1679
01:27:05,880 --> 01:27:10,120
Speaker 1: not so XS and o's football talk esque, but we're

1680
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:13,559
Speaker 1: gonna give you our our top five favorite things from

1681
01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:17,519
Speaker 1: this week so far. It's only what Tuesday, So it's

1682
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:20,800
Speaker 1: Tuesday top five so far left in this week, but

1683
01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:23,880
Speaker 1: it's kind of got to go this weekend. Maybe, yeah,

1684
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,160
Speaker 1: you can include the last weekend, right, so if there's

1685
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:29,280
Speaker 1: anything like the seven days right since last Tuesday to

1686
01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:32,600
Speaker 1: this Tuesday. That's kind of a weird segment of a

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Speaker 1: seven days, but it is a week so from last

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01:27:35,400 --> 01:27:39,080
Speaker 1: Tuesday this Tuesday. What are our top fives? Right? Right? Okay,

1689
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:41,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna do that. I've got to I've got to

1690
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:43,160
Speaker 1: polish up my list here before we get to the

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01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:45,400
Speaker 1: bottom of the next half hour or so and get

1692
01:27:45,439 --> 01:27:46,960
Speaker 1: to that. But we got that going on, so we're

1693
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:49,479
Speaker 1: gonna do stay to the Bill's tight ends. Yesterday was linebackers,

1694
01:27:49,520 --> 01:27:53,840
Speaker 1: today's tight ends. Have we decided what we're gonna do tomorrow, Maddie, Oh,

1695
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:56,439
Speaker 1: we have not decided yet, but we'll probably jump back

1696
01:27:56,479 --> 01:28:00,519
Speaker 1: to defense because I like doing defense, offense, defense, offense,

1697
01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:03,320
Speaker 1: alternating like that. What do you think task or think?

1698
01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:06,160
Speaker 1: I agree? I think defensive line. That's what I want

1699
01:28:06,200 --> 01:28:08,720
Speaker 1: to do. I want to do. I want to do

1700
01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:11,400
Speaker 1: State of the Bills and the defensive line. Let's go

1701
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:15,040
Speaker 1: there and that. So listen, we're gonna take a break

1702
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:16,600
Speaker 1: in a minute and then but before we do, I

1703
01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:18,559
Speaker 1: want to just give you this, give us a call

1704
01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:20,600
Speaker 1: our question of the day, and what's the most underrated

1705
01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:23,559
Speaker 1: unit of the Buffalo Bills. Also, we're gonna be talking

1706
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:31,160
Speaker 1: about the the the most the tight ends, the State

1707
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:33,240
Speaker 1: of the Bills, the tight ends, what's the most underrated

1708
01:28:33,320 --> 01:28:35,439
Speaker 1: unit tight ends or one of the questions we gave

1709
01:28:35,479 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 1: you or one of the options we gave you, And

1710
01:28:36,880 --> 01:28:38,760
Speaker 1: we're gonna be going down the roster of tight ends

1711
01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:41,400
Speaker 1: on the Bill's roster and talking about them, and we'll

1712
01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:44,639
Speaker 1: also answer your questions or comments eat as well. In fact,

1713
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:46,519
Speaker 1: we'd love to have you call at eight h three

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01:28:46,600 --> 01:28:49,519
Speaker 1: oh five fifty or one eighty eight five fifty two

1715
01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:52,639
Speaker 1: five fifty this next half hour. If you've ever wanted

1716
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:54,559
Speaker 1: to call, you're gonna have a chance to do it.

1717
01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:56,760
Speaker 1: We'll take whatever calls come in and we're gonna get

1718
01:28:56,840 --> 01:28:58,720
Speaker 1: right to them as well. Sometimes we get caught up

1719
01:28:58,760 --> 01:29:01,400
Speaker 1: talking about things and we kind of push him past

1720
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:03,519
Speaker 1: the break and people get fed up with me and

1721
01:29:03,600 --> 01:29:06,120
Speaker 1: they hang up on me because I'm not alert. But

1722
01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 1: we'll be looking for your calls in the next half hour.

1723
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:10,439
Speaker 1: You can do that. Steve Tasker and Maddie Glab here

1724
01:29:10,439 --> 01:29:12,439
Speaker 1: and One Bills Live. We're presented by Kalid to Health.

1725
01:29:12,680 --> 01:29:20,479
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Alive,

1726
01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:23,479
Speaker 1: the final hour. Steve Tasker with Maddie Glab We're here

1727
01:29:23,560 --> 01:29:25,719
Speaker 1: till three o'clock of this next half hour. We're gonna

1728
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:27,920
Speaker 1: be talking about a bunch of stuff. Mostly we want

1729
01:29:27,960 --> 01:29:30,960
Speaker 1: to do a state of the Bills and we're gonna

1730
01:29:31,280 --> 01:29:33,760
Speaker 1: talk about the tight end position. We talked about the

1731
01:29:33,760 --> 01:29:37,080
Speaker 1: linebackers yesterday, and when we started getting into this in

1732
01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:40,519
Speaker 1: the preparation, I don't know how it surprised you or what.

1733
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:43,720
Speaker 1: I was really really surprised when you got to look

1734
01:29:43,720 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 1: at the roster. The Bills didn't bring in one single

1735
01:29:48,240 --> 01:29:53,000
Speaker 1: solitary new tight end to the roster. They kept the

1736
01:29:53,120 --> 01:29:56,519
Speaker 1: exact same group going into training camp that they had

1737
01:29:56,560 --> 01:29:59,160
Speaker 1: from a year ago. Certainly they've got a couple of

1738
01:29:59,240 --> 01:30:03,120
Speaker 1: guys that didn't participate last year. Uh, Nate Becker, Jason Crum.

1739
01:30:03,240 --> 01:30:05,320
Speaker 1: Crum was on I or Nate Becker was I guess

1740
01:30:05,320 --> 01:30:09,519
Speaker 1: what a practice squad guy. And they did bring in

1741
01:30:09,560 --> 01:30:14,360
Speaker 1: a fullback slash tight end, which he's a fullback in

1742
01:30:14,400 --> 01:30:18,160
Speaker 1: the NFL, so uh uh, all right now, I can't

1743
01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:22,240
Speaker 1: think of his name, John Giohnny Jeannie jack Amini. I

1744
01:30:22,280 --> 01:30:25,800
Speaker 1: can't remember the guy's name. Anyway, he's a fullback. He's

1745
01:30:25,840 --> 01:30:30,080
Speaker 1: gonna be in competition with Pat DeMarco. But the guys

1746
01:30:30,120 --> 01:30:33,960
Speaker 1: they brought back um most of whom we know, Dawson Knox,

1747
01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:39,479
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft, Lee Smith's, Tommy Sweeney, Jason Crum, and Nate Becker.

1748
01:30:40,200 --> 01:30:42,040
Speaker 1: These are all guys that were on the team last

1749
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:44,240
Speaker 1: year in some capacity a way shape or form and

1750
01:30:44,240 --> 01:30:47,360
Speaker 1: they're back and that's it. That is the crew that's

1751
01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:49,880
Speaker 1: gonna go into training camp. What do you when you

1752
01:30:49,960 --> 01:30:51,599
Speaker 1: read that and they didn't bring any new ones in,

1753
01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:53,799
Speaker 1: what do you what does that make you think? Mattie

1754
01:30:54,880 --> 01:30:59,960
Speaker 1: Reggie gilliam is the fullback? Reggie. I apologize to Reggie.

1755
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:02,360
Speaker 1: Apologize to Reggie for Butcher and his name. I was

1756
01:31:02,840 --> 01:31:04,680
Speaker 1: I could not think. I just read I read it

1757
01:31:04,720 --> 01:31:08,719
Speaker 1: like an hour ago. Now I'm glad you're on the team, Reggie.

1758
01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:13,160
Speaker 1: I hope you make it. But when you look at

1759
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:17,120
Speaker 1: this group having no new players added to it, I

1760
01:31:17,160 --> 01:31:20,400
Speaker 1: think that says that this coaching staff is pretty confident

1761
01:31:20,479 --> 01:31:24,160
Speaker 1: in what they can bring to the table, not only

1762
01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:28,200
Speaker 1: looking off of just last year's product. Because you had

1763
01:31:28,280 --> 01:31:33,240
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft, who played in eleven games and had that

1764
01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:37,040
Speaker 1: foot injury going into the season. Unfortunately got hurt again

1765
01:31:37,439 --> 01:31:40,000
Speaker 1: during the season, and so I don't think you saw

1766
01:31:40,240 --> 01:31:43,040
Speaker 1: everything that Tyler could give on the field. And then

1767
01:31:43,040 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 1: you had Jason Krum who is on IR. I think

1768
01:31:45,840 --> 01:31:48,320
Speaker 1: you look at what this group can give, and I

1769
01:31:48,360 --> 01:31:51,720
Speaker 1: think it's a lot. We saw the Bills use a

1770
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:54,400
Speaker 1: lot of twelve personnel towards the beginning of the season

1771
01:31:54,520 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 1: last year, and then they kind of moved into a

1772
01:31:57,240 --> 01:32:01,040
Speaker 1: more basic eleven personnel once they started to do no

1773
01:32:01,160 --> 01:32:05,240
Speaker 1: huddle offense, which helped Josh Allen a lot. But what

1774
01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 1: do they want in a tight end? Do you want

1775
01:32:07,479 --> 01:32:10,320
Speaker 1: somebody who can obviously help in the blocking game, but

1776
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:13,880
Speaker 1: you want somebody who can be a force on the

1777
01:32:13,960 --> 01:32:18,120
Speaker 1: receiving end as well. I think we saw sparks of

1778
01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:20,960
Speaker 1: that from Dawson Knox last season. He had twenty eight

1779
01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:23,599
Speaker 1: catches for three hundred and eighty eight receiving yards average,

1780
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:27,320
Speaker 1: thirteen point at yards per reception, had two touchdowns, And

1781
01:32:27,439 --> 01:32:30,280
Speaker 1: I looked at his yards perception and where that ranked

1782
01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 1: in the league from last year, and he's top fifteen

1783
01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: in that category, which is a great thing. He had

1784
01:32:37,240 --> 01:32:39,680
Speaker 1: some drafts last season that he wasn't proud of that

1785
01:32:39,720 --> 01:32:41,880
Speaker 1: I don't think Bill's fans were proud of, and that's

1786
01:32:41,880 --> 01:32:45,000
Speaker 1: something that he wanted to fix going into this season.

1787
01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:48,640
Speaker 1: And I think Dawson said it. He said, when you

1788
01:32:48,720 --> 01:32:51,280
Speaker 1: add some good wide receivers like Steph Digs and you

1789
01:32:51,280 --> 01:32:53,720
Speaker 1: add more people to the wide receiver room, he was like,

1790
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:56,760
Speaker 1: I hope that opens the flat for me. So when

1791
01:32:56,800 --> 01:33:00,000
Speaker 1: you add some better players. When you add more players

1792
01:33:00,040 --> 01:33:02,479
Speaker 1: to a wide receiver room, I think what happens with

1793
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:05,000
Speaker 1: that is you give opportunity to the tight end room

1794
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:09,960
Speaker 1: as well. Dawson Knox is a threat when he catches

1795
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:12,960
Speaker 1: that ball. We saw that last season with what he

1796
01:33:13,040 --> 01:33:15,479
Speaker 1: was able to do. He won an angry run from

1797
01:33:15,520 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football for Truck and a couple of players

1798
01:33:18,360 --> 01:33:20,759
Speaker 1: over and I want to see more of that next season.

1799
01:33:20,920 --> 01:33:23,280
Speaker 1: I want to see Tyler Croft have a better year.

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01:33:23,320 --> 01:33:26,320
Speaker 1: I want to see Jason Croune be involved in this offense.

1801
01:33:26,400 --> 01:33:29,839
Speaker 1: I think he has showed promise at times. In twenty eighteen,

1802
01:33:29,880 --> 01:33:32,400
Speaker 1: he had twenty two catches for tunored fifty nine yards

1803
01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:35,360
Speaker 1: average eleven point yards per reception. So I think what

1804
01:33:35,520 --> 01:33:38,080
Speaker 1: they have in this group is good. I think we

1805
01:33:38,160 --> 01:33:41,160
Speaker 1: have yet to seen it all work together under the

1806
01:33:41,200 --> 01:33:44,679
Speaker 1: regime of Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott. Yeah, I think

1807
01:33:44,680 --> 01:33:46,640
Speaker 1: you're right. We've got a lot of guys that do

1808
01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:49,439
Speaker 1: some things well. I think Knox because and the reason

1809
01:33:49,479 --> 01:33:53,439
Speaker 1: I think Dawson Knox started and was the primary tight

1810
01:33:53,560 --> 01:33:55,800
Speaker 1: end in the in the eleven personnel package and all

1811
01:33:55,840 --> 01:33:58,960
Speaker 1: that was because he's the most complete guy. The other

1812
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:01,519
Speaker 1: guys all have that they do extremely well, Like like

1813
01:34:01,720 --> 01:34:06,200
Speaker 1: Lee Smith. The guy's like an offensive tackle three feet wide.

1814
01:34:06,240 --> 01:34:08,479
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is a beast in the running game.

1815
01:34:10,920 --> 01:34:14,200
Speaker 1: Jason Krum, He's kind of a wide receiver type tight end.

1816
01:34:14,240 --> 01:34:15,559
Speaker 1: You want to talk about a guy that can run

1817
01:34:15,680 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 1: nifty routes and come out of breaks and get open

1818
01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:21,439
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. He's really good in the

1819
01:34:21,479 --> 01:34:24,080
Speaker 1: passing game as a guy who you could flex out

1820
01:34:24,120 --> 01:34:27,080
Speaker 1: and get off the break off from the formation, you know,

1821
01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:30,680
Speaker 1: out in space, and he could do really well in that.

1822
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:33,759
Speaker 1: But he's limited in that he's still learning the physical

1823
01:34:33,800 --> 01:34:36,839
Speaker 1: part of the game, the down and dirty, pushing guys around,

1824
01:34:37,080 --> 01:34:39,640
Speaker 1: getting down into the pile and and um, you know,

1825
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:43,040
Speaker 1: drive blocking defenders. He's still getting the hang of that.

1826
01:34:43,160 --> 01:34:46,680
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft, while he is a guy who seems to

1827
01:34:46,720 --> 01:34:49,880
Speaker 1: have it all the way around, he has trouble staying healthy.

1828
01:34:49,880 --> 01:34:51,800
Speaker 1: He had trouble getting on the field last year. Now

1829
01:34:51,840 --> 01:34:53,240
Speaker 1: he played in a lot of games though, and he

1830
01:34:53,280 --> 01:34:57,280
Speaker 1: started to contribute, so he saw flashes of him. But

1831
01:34:57,640 --> 01:35:00,599
Speaker 1: you know that they restructured his deal, which makes it

1832
01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:04,479
Speaker 1: to me, and you talk about the business side of things,

1833
01:35:04,760 --> 01:35:06,719
Speaker 1: makes it more likely that he'll be on the team

1834
01:35:06,760 --> 01:35:11,400
Speaker 1: this year, that it was an advantageous for the club,

1835
01:35:11,400 --> 01:35:14,439
Speaker 1: and it's a prove it deal for Tyler if if

1836
01:35:14,479 --> 01:35:17,479
Speaker 1: it comes about, Tyler has a great year, He's in

1837
01:35:17,520 --> 01:35:20,559
Speaker 1: a position to make a lot more money. But as

1838
01:35:20,600 --> 01:35:23,439
Speaker 1: it is, the Bills are not on the hook for

1839
01:35:23,520 --> 01:35:26,160
Speaker 1: him and taking a big salary cap if they decide

1840
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:28,920
Speaker 1: to release him. So for me, you're going to get

1841
01:35:28,920 --> 01:35:31,439
Speaker 1: the best Tyler Craft you can get this season, and

1842
01:35:31,479 --> 01:35:33,400
Speaker 1: I think that's a plus for the Buffalo Bills. So

1843
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:36,280
Speaker 1: and Tommy Sweeney, I think he's a he's a little

1844
01:35:36,280 --> 01:35:40,479
Speaker 1: bit on the same vein as Dawson Knox. He had

1845
01:35:40,520 --> 01:35:42,280
Speaker 1: a chance to find out what it was all about.

1846
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:44,599
Speaker 1: He has a find He had a chance to find

1847
01:35:44,600 --> 01:35:46,760
Speaker 1: out to get his legs under him. He had a

1848
01:35:46,880 --> 01:35:50,240
Speaker 1: chance to get a feel for the culture and to

1849
01:35:50,320 --> 01:35:55,320
Speaker 1: get an unvarnished opinion other than his own, about what

1850
01:35:55,360 --> 01:35:57,240
Speaker 1: he needs to do to be a pro tight end.

1851
01:35:57,800 --> 01:36:02,479
Speaker 1: And the question is did he believe that information, did

1852
01:36:02,479 --> 01:36:04,960
Speaker 1: he work on that on his weaknesses to his game?

1853
01:36:05,720 --> 01:36:08,240
Speaker 1: Did he do some things to make himself more valuable

1854
01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:11,080
Speaker 1: to the roster, And if so, let's see it so

1855
01:36:11,840 --> 01:36:14,000
Speaker 1: you can go all the way down to Jason Nate Becker.

1856
01:36:14,240 --> 01:36:15,640
Speaker 1: He had a lot to work on. I mean, that's

1857
01:36:15,640 --> 01:36:17,360
Speaker 1: a guy that's going to have a hard time getting

1858
01:36:17,400 --> 01:36:19,880
Speaker 1: on it. But like linebackers, when you get down to

1859
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:25,760
Speaker 1: the third fourth tight end, it may be as much

1860
01:36:25,800 --> 01:36:27,879
Speaker 1: about your special team's role as it is your ability

1861
01:36:27,920 --> 01:36:30,840
Speaker 1: to catch passes. And that's where we're at. When once

1862
01:36:30,880 --> 01:36:34,880
Speaker 1: you get past I think Knox, Croft, Lee Smith, and Sweeney.

1863
01:36:35,960 --> 01:36:38,160
Speaker 1: I think Jason Krum is a guy that could upset

1864
01:36:38,200 --> 01:36:40,240
Speaker 1: that apple card to those four guys being the four

1865
01:36:40,240 --> 01:36:43,840
Speaker 1: guys that are active on any given game. Yeah, I

1866
01:36:43,880 --> 01:36:46,799
Speaker 1: think Krum win healthy. He's a talented player. Now, Krum

1867
01:36:46,920 --> 01:36:49,400
Speaker 1: and I overlapped at Tennessee for a couple of years,

1868
01:36:49,400 --> 01:36:51,680
Speaker 1: so when I worked at Tennessee, Krum was there and

1869
01:36:51,720 --> 01:36:53,360
Speaker 1: it was great to get to know him. I mean,

1870
01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:56,479
Speaker 1: he was a wide receiver at Tennessee. He got hurt

1871
01:36:56,920 --> 01:36:59,960
Speaker 1: and then after he came back from his injury, he asked,

1872
01:37:00,240 --> 01:37:03,000
Speaker 1: but Jones was the coach of Tennessee. Then he wanted

1873
01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:04,960
Speaker 1: to switch over to tight end and he was able

1874
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:08,400
Speaker 1: to do so. And on that roster at that time,

1875
01:37:08,400 --> 01:37:11,200
Speaker 1: you look at Jason Krum, he was the biggest wide receiver,

1876
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:13,400
Speaker 1: and it was a conversation that a lot of local

1877
01:37:13,439 --> 01:37:15,720
Speaker 1: media people had, is it would make sense for this

1878
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:17,960
Speaker 1: guy to switch over his tight end, And I think

1879
01:37:18,439 --> 01:37:20,439
Speaker 1: I like him being at tight end because he's a

1880
01:37:20,479 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 1: different body than a Dawson Knox. He is, like you said,

1881
01:37:23,880 --> 01:37:26,519
Speaker 1: somebody who can line up on the outside and cause

1882
01:37:26,600 --> 01:37:29,160
Speaker 1: some havoc there. Now, when he came into the NFL,

1883
01:37:29,439 --> 01:37:31,400
Speaker 1: he had to learn how to block. That was something

1884
01:37:31,439 --> 01:37:33,880
Speaker 1: that he was working on in the last year in

1885
01:37:34,040 --> 01:37:36,360
Speaker 1: college when he made that transition to tight end. That's

1886
01:37:36,400 --> 01:37:38,880
Speaker 1: something that he still needs to work on. But a

1887
01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:41,599
Speaker 1: healthy Jason Krum I think is helpful to this team.

1888
01:37:41,600 --> 01:37:44,160
Speaker 1: And I look at tom of Sweeney as being more

1889
01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:48,839
Speaker 1: of an underappreciated player from last season. I think if

1890
01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:52,360
Speaker 1: you looked at last season before any of the injuries happened,

1891
01:37:52,400 --> 01:37:56,719
Speaker 1: before Tyler Croft got injured in what was in camp,

1892
01:37:57,400 --> 01:38:00,479
Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't think that Tommy Sweeney would have played

1893
01:38:00,479 --> 01:38:02,960
Speaker 1: the role that he played last season if that whole

1894
01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:07,439
Speaker 1: group was completely healthy. I think Tommy Sweeney did what

1895
01:38:07,479 --> 01:38:09,559
Speaker 1: he needed to do when he was asked to go

1896
01:38:09,640 --> 01:38:12,200
Speaker 1: into the game and the six games that he played,

1897
01:38:12,200 --> 01:38:15,000
Speaker 1: and he had eight receptions for one hundred and fourteen yards.

1898
01:38:15,240 --> 01:38:18,680
Speaker 1: He averaged fourteen point three yards per reception, which is

1899
01:38:18,920 --> 01:38:22,800
Speaker 1: pretty dang good for playing in only six games. I

1900
01:38:22,960 --> 01:38:25,400
Speaker 1: was proud of what he was able to bring to

1901
01:38:25,600 --> 01:38:30,400
Speaker 1: that group. And then Tyler Croft obviously somebody that is

1902
01:38:30,439 --> 01:38:33,920
Speaker 1: going to need to step up this year. I think

1903
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:38,160
Speaker 1: fans were bummed out with what he didn't bring to

1904
01:38:38,240 --> 01:38:40,080
Speaker 1: the table. Now, I know that had to do with

1905
01:38:40,120 --> 01:38:42,800
Speaker 1: some injuries, and I was bummed that he didn't have

1906
01:38:42,840 --> 01:38:45,800
Speaker 1: the season that we were looking forward to as well.

1907
01:38:45,840 --> 01:38:47,559
Speaker 1: I mean, they bring in this tight end on this

1908
01:38:47,680 --> 01:38:51,519
Speaker 1: three year deal which is restructured now to two, and

1909
01:38:51,560 --> 01:38:54,679
Speaker 1: there were big hopes for Tyler Croft. And one thing

1910
01:38:54,720 --> 01:38:57,439
Speaker 1: that I think was awesome was when he scored that

1911
01:38:58,160 --> 01:39:00,680
Speaker 1: fourteen yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter of the

1912
01:39:00,680 --> 01:39:03,679
Speaker 1: Steelers game, when that game was on the line, and

1913
01:39:03,840 --> 01:39:07,120
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and the players talked about just how

1914
01:39:07,120 --> 01:39:10,360
Speaker 1: hard he had worked and how they stood by him

1915
01:39:10,520 --> 01:39:13,840
Speaker 1: in the progress that he had made getting healthy. So

1916
01:39:13,880 --> 01:39:16,639
Speaker 1: I think the staff and the players really like Tyler

1917
01:39:16,680 --> 01:39:19,519
Speaker 1: crofton and they believe in him, and they believe in

1918
01:39:19,560 --> 01:39:21,960
Speaker 1: what he can bring to the field next season when

1919
01:39:21,960 --> 01:39:24,200
Speaker 1: he's healthy and again, a lot of this is based

1920
01:39:24,240 --> 01:39:27,120
Speaker 1: on health. Hopefully this group can be healthy next season,

1921
01:39:27,120 --> 01:39:30,240
Speaker 1: Hopefully the team can be helpy next season. But we

1922
01:39:30,360 --> 01:39:32,519
Speaker 1: can't read into the future and tell those cards yet,

1923
01:39:33,640 --> 01:39:37,040
Speaker 1: right exactly, And what's the most underrated unit on the

1924
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:39,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's roster Is at the tight ends that we're

1925
01:39:39,200 --> 01:39:41,000
Speaker 1: talking about and continue to talk about, or is it

1926
01:39:41,080 --> 01:39:43,960
Speaker 1: the offensive line that is bringing back all five starters

1927
01:39:43,960 --> 01:39:46,160
Speaker 1: are at the linebacking corps that we spoke about yesterday

1928
01:39:46,200 --> 01:39:48,840
Speaker 1: and went down the list of their chances about making

1929
01:39:48,840 --> 01:39:51,280
Speaker 1: the team, or it was one another group that you're

1930
01:39:51,360 --> 01:39:53,200
Speaker 1: you're thinking of this the most underrated give us a

1931
01:39:53,200 --> 01:39:55,559
Speaker 1: call at eight oh three, five fifty. One of the

1932
01:39:55,720 --> 01:39:59,439
Speaker 1: interesting things about this tight end group, and because there's

1933
01:39:59,520 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 1: kind of a hybrid position, Maddie, like where you got

1934
01:40:03,000 --> 01:40:05,280
Speaker 1: the guy, he's lined up beside the offensive tackle. If

1935
01:40:05,280 --> 01:40:06,880
Speaker 1: they run it, he stays on the field. If they

1936
01:40:06,880 --> 01:40:09,240
Speaker 1: pass it, he stays on the field. He doesn't get

1937
01:40:09,280 --> 01:40:12,439
Speaker 1: substituted for in a perfect world. And you've got a

1938
01:40:12,479 --> 01:40:15,000
Speaker 1: guy like Lee Smith on the roster, who, like we

1939
01:40:15,040 --> 01:40:20,040
Speaker 1: said earlier, is a big, brawny offensive lineman type of guy. Now,

1940
01:40:20,040 --> 01:40:22,120
Speaker 1: certainly he can run routes, and he's nifty enough to

1941
01:40:22,160 --> 01:40:24,280
Speaker 1: do that on a level, but he's not as good

1942
01:40:24,280 --> 01:40:27,280
Speaker 1: at doing that as he is at the physical aspect

1943
01:40:27,360 --> 01:40:29,680
Speaker 1: of tight end. Then on the flip side of that,

1944
01:40:30,040 --> 01:40:33,559
Speaker 1: you got Jason Krum, who's a wide receiver converted to

1945
01:40:33,680 --> 01:40:36,160
Speaker 1: tight end. So it's there are two guys on both

1946
01:40:36,240 --> 01:40:39,720
Speaker 1: ends of the spectrum of the tight end. You know,

1947
01:40:39,920 --> 01:40:42,960
Speaker 1: skill set. You know, Lee Smith is the offensive line

1948
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:45,880
Speaker 1: type of tight end and Jason Crumb is the wide

1949
01:40:45,880 --> 01:40:48,559
Speaker 1: receiver type of tight end. And I've I've long said

1950
01:40:48,600 --> 01:40:55,280
Speaker 1: it that most teams don't cultivate trement great tight ends.

1951
01:40:55,320 --> 01:40:59,400
Speaker 1: They steal them because they're hard to find. And once

1952
01:40:59,439 --> 01:41:02,240
Speaker 1: a guy merges as one of those elite tight ends,

1953
01:41:02,560 --> 01:41:04,439
Speaker 1: you try and steal him from the other team. Either

1954
01:41:04,439 --> 01:41:06,640
Speaker 1: get him from free agency, you trade for him, or

1955
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:08,919
Speaker 1: you find a guy like it. They're hard to develop.

1956
01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:12,080
Speaker 1: When they come out, they are usually guys that are

1957
01:41:12,160 --> 01:41:14,599
Speaker 1: good at everything and then just get better at everything.

1958
01:41:15,439 --> 01:41:20,760
Speaker 1: George Kittle, Travis Kelsey, those guys are good. Kittle is

1959
01:41:20,800 --> 01:41:22,760
Speaker 1: as good as anybody at the blocking side of it,

1960
01:41:22,840 --> 01:41:25,240
Speaker 1: but he's also that, you know, the tight end that

1961
01:41:25,280 --> 01:41:28,040
Speaker 1: can catch touchdown passes or run great routes and win

1962
01:41:28,080 --> 01:41:30,320
Speaker 1: a one on one matchup, which is about anybody on

1963
01:41:30,360 --> 01:41:33,439
Speaker 1: the field. That makes him different. And because of that,

1964
01:41:33,920 --> 01:41:37,040
Speaker 1: you know, that's why he's elite. That's why he and

1965
01:41:37,040 --> 01:41:41,439
Speaker 1: a guy like um Travis Kelsey, those guys you know,

1966
01:41:42,200 --> 01:41:45,840
Speaker 1: do commercials and stuff, they're hard to find, right, So

1967
01:41:46,640 --> 01:41:49,040
Speaker 1: because of that, I think it's it's interesting to think

1968
01:41:49,080 --> 01:41:52,639
Speaker 1: about that. You know, the Bills have a group of

1969
01:41:52,680 --> 01:41:56,680
Speaker 1: guys that have the total skill set, that have the

1970
01:41:56,680 --> 01:41:59,439
Speaker 1: total skill set as a mix of them, Lee Smith,

1971
01:42:00,080 --> 01:42:04,680
Speaker 1: Jason Krum, Dawson Knox, who is pretty good at all

1972
01:42:04,720 --> 01:42:07,479
Speaker 1: of them, right, and he's a good and I think

1973
01:42:07,560 --> 01:42:10,639
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox, I think he alluded to it. I think

1974
01:42:10,640 --> 01:42:13,280
Speaker 1: his biggest gift is once he's got the ball in

1975
01:42:13,320 --> 01:42:18,360
Speaker 1: his hands, you know what I mean, That's what I

1976
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:20,200
Speaker 1: think he does well. And the question, you know, the

1977
01:42:20,200 --> 01:42:22,760
Speaker 1: problem is or the question is can they get him

1978
01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:24,800
Speaker 1: the ball enough for him to make differences like that?

1979
01:42:25,080 --> 01:42:27,040
Speaker 1: Can they get him in a position where he can

1980
01:42:27,040 --> 01:42:29,320
Speaker 1: catch it? You know, he had some drops and of

1981
01:42:29,320 --> 01:42:33,439
Speaker 1: course whenever you drop it, it's always an opportune it's

1982
01:42:33,479 --> 01:42:36,920
Speaker 1: never at the right time, right, So the timely drops

1983
01:42:36,960 --> 01:42:40,360
Speaker 1: that he had last year, I think really really bothered him,

1984
01:42:40,360 --> 01:42:43,360
Speaker 1: and I think we're a real stain on a really

1985
01:42:43,400 --> 01:42:46,760
Speaker 1: good first year. But each of this group has some

1986
01:42:46,800 --> 01:42:49,439
Speaker 1: stuff that they do really well. Tyler Crofts a veteran

1987
01:42:49,479 --> 01:42:51,439
Speaker 1: guy who's been around, and he seems to do a

1988
01:42:51,439 --> 01:42:54,360
Speaker 1: little about what Dawson Knox does, although Knox I think

1989
01:42:54,360 --> 01:42:57,000
Speaker 1: it's a better athlete at this point, So we'll see.

1990
01:42:58,320 --> 01:43:00,600
Speaker 1: And now when you get down to Lee Smith and

1991
01:43:00,760 --> 01:43:05,120
Speaker 1: Jason Croome and Nate Becker, who plays special teams better?

1992
01:43:05,720 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 1: You know? Certainly Lee Smith is a guy that's got

1993
01:43:08,360 --> 01:43:11,839
Speaker 1: some abilities down inside, and big big guys on special

1994
01:43:11,880 --> 01:43:17,559
Speaker 1: teams are a rarity, a rarity. Guys I played with

1995
01:43:17,600 --> 01:43:21,040
Speaker 1: and special teams. Probably the biggest, the greatest big man

1996
01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:24,280
Speaker 1: special teams player of all time was Mark Pike, my teammate,

1997
01:43:24,560 --> 01:43:27,600
Speaker 1: which is why our teams were so good. I was

1998
01:43:27,640 --> 01:43:30,040
Speaker 1: out there and had one of the other greatest special

1999
01:43:30,040 --> 01:43:32,920
Speaker 1: teams players ever out there with me and Mark Pike,

2000
01:43:33,240 --> 01:43:36,519
Speaker 1: and he was a matchup nightmare. So big guys on

2001
01:43:36,640 --> 01:43:39,920
Speaker 1: special teams like Lee Smith or like Jason Crum or

2002
01:43:39,960 --> 01:43:42,519
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft or Nate Becker, whoever you want to make

2003
01:43:42,560 --> 01:43:44,880
Speaker 1: these guys are all big body dudes, and if they

2004
01:43:44,880 --> 01:43:48,439
Speaker 1: can really play special teams, they become a matchup nightmare

2005
01:43:48,520 --> 01:43:51,760
Speaker 1: for for your opponent. And that's a huge plus. But

2006
01:43:51,840 --> 01:43:53,479
Speaker 1: which of those guys is better? I don't know if

2007
01:43:53,479 --> 01:43:56,920
Speaker 1: I can answer that, you know, I just don't know. Yeah,

2008
01:43:56,920 --> 01:43:58,640
Speaker 1: and we knew we got a tight end and what

2009
01:43:58,720 --> 01:44:01,120
Speaker 1: they can provide to keep I think a tight end,

2010
01:44:01,439 --> 01:44:04,439
Speaker 1: if it's a tight end that can be physical and

2011
01:44:04,600 --> 01:44:07,920
Speaker 1: one that can help in the receiving game, that's a

2012
01:44:08,000 --> 01:44:11,640
Speaker 1: secret weapon. It's not really that secret. But when you

2013
01:44:11,680 --> 01:44:14,040
Speaker 1: look at some of the best tight ends in the NFL,

2014
01:44:14,240 --> 01:44:18,840
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, George Kittle, Zach Ertz, Mark Andrews, these are

2015
01:44:18,920 --> 01:44:22,800
Speaker 1: one thousand yard receivers. Travis Kelsey had a thousand, two

2016
01:44:22,880 --> 01:44:26,000
Speaker 1: undred twenty nine yards. George Kittle had one thousand and

2017
01:44:26,040 --> 01:44:29,400
Speaker 1: fifty three yards. They both had five touchdowns. Mark Andrews

2018
01:44:29,400 --> 01:44:32,519
Speaker 1: had ten touchdowns eight hundred and fifty two receiving yards.

2019
01:44:33,439 --> 01:44:37,920
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey average seventy six point eight receiving yards a game.

2020
01:44:38,200 --> 01:44:41,200
Speaker 1: That's a big workload on a tight end. I think

2021
01:44:41,520 --> 01:44:43,800
Speaker 1: when you have a tight end of that quality, of

2022
01:44:43,800 --> 01:44:48,400
Speaker 1: that caliber, that's an immediate mismatch for whatever team you're

2023
01:44:48,439 --> 01:44:51,360
Speaker 1: playing against because of the physicality that a tight end

2024
01:44:51,360 --> 01:44:53,479
Speaker 1: brings to the game, and that's somebody who can be

2025
01:44:53,560 --> 01:44:57,759
Speaker 1: a game changer when you need them. Can Dawson Knox

2026
01:44:58,000 --> 01:45:00,439
Speaker 1: work to be that in the next few years? Can

2027
01:45:00,520 --> 01:45:04,519
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft be that in the next season. Tyler Croft's

2028
01:45:04,600 --> 01:45:09,040
Speaker 1: best year was in twenty seventeen and he had forty

2029
01:45:09,080 --> 01:45:13,559
Speaker 1: two receptions for four hundred forty yards, so he hasn't

2030
01:45:13,600 --> 01:45:18,280
Speaker 1: broken into that seven hundred receiving yard conversation yet. Can

2031
01:45:18,320 --> 01:45:22,200
Speaker 1: any of these guys be that player? I think they can.

2032
01:45:22,880 --> 01:45:25,400
Speaker 1: If they can get there, they can make a big

2033
01:45:25,439 --> 01:45:28,880
Speaker 1: difference for this team and help the wide receivers out,

2034
01:45:28,960 --> 01:45:31,680
Speaker 1: and in turn the wide receivers can help them. I

2035
01:45:31,720 --> 01:45:34,120
Speaker 1: think having somebody like that on your team is what

2036
01:45:34,280 --> 01:45:36,880
Speaker 1: takes your team to the next level, which is where

2037
01:45:36,920 --> 01:45:38,760
Speaker 1: this team is trying to go at the end of

2038
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:41,280
Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, Steve Tasker, Maddie Glad, if you want

2039
01:45:41,280 --> 01:45:43,040
Speaker 1: to get it on this conversations eight to three oh

2040
01:45:43,120 --> 01:45:45,120
Speaker 1: five fifty, we're talking about the tight ends, and one

2041
01:45:45,120 --> 01:45:47,680
Speaker 1: of the things that comes to mind now, Maddie is

2042
01:45:47,680 --> 01:45:49,439
Speaker 1: the fact you mentioned if the Bills have been a

2043
01:45:49,439 --> 01:45:52,519
Speaker 1: healthy group over the course of the last two seasons.

2044
01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:54,759
Speaker 1: Last year they were the healthiest squad in the NFL,

2045
01:45:55,400 --> 01:46:01,880
Speaker 1: with fewest losses, the fewest starts, loss to starters, I

2046
01:46:01,920 --> 01:46:04,400
Speaker 1: don't know how they say it, the fewest guys who

2047
01:46:04,400 --> 01:46:08,160
Speaker 1: were starters, They lost the fewest of those games man

2048
01:46:08,200 --> 01:46:10,560
Speaker 1: games in the league. And I think it was a

2049
01:46:10,920 --> 01:46:13,120
Speaker 1: second or third year in a row that they've done that,

2050
01:46:14,080 --> 01:46:17,800
Speaker 1: and that really I think one one position group is

2051
01:46:17,840 --> 01:46:20,160
Speaker 1: this tight end group that has really been hampered by that.

2052
01:46:20,479 --> 01:46:22,680
Speaker 1: Jason Crum couldn't play at all last year because of

2053
01:46:22,720 --> 01:46:27,479
Speaker 1: an injury, and Tyler Croft was nicked up throughout the

2054
01:46:27,600 --> 01:46:31,080
Speaker 1: early part of the season, and which left two rookies

2055
01:46:31,680 --> 01:46:35,120
Speaker 1: in Tommy Sweeney and Dawson Knox, kind of the last

2056
01:46:35,160 --> 01:46:38,160
Speaker 1: guy's standing. Now. Lee Smith was also there, and he's

2057
01:46:38,200 --> 01:46:40,680
Speaker 1: really the vocal leader of the group, but those are

2058
01:46:40,680 --> 01:46:42,360
Speaker 1: the only three guys that were really one hundred percent

2059
01:46:42,400 --> 01:46:45,439
Speaker 1: standing there, ready to go. And Lee Smith is not

2060
01:46:45,439 --> 01:46:47,400
Speaker 1: going to be in there on every down basis. They

2061
01:46:47,400 --> 01:46:52,519
Speaker 1: were virtually backed into a corner and a staff and

2062
01:46:52,640 --> 01:46:55,120
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, for good or for bad, whether you like

2063
01:46:55,160 --> 01:46:56,960
Speaker 1: it or whether you don't, he doesn't like to start

2064
01:46:57,080 --> 01:47:00,320
Speaker 1: rookies on opening day. You know, he wants them to

2065
01:47:00,360 --> 01:47:02,719
Speaker 1: develop and get used to it, get their feet under them,

2066
01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:04,479
Speaker 1: and then work into it and by the end of

2067
01:47:04,479 --> 01:47:07,240
Speaker 1: the season feel comfortable enough to start him in games

2068
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:10,479
Speaker 1: and leave them in there. They couldn't do that last

2069
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:13,320
Speaker 1: year with the tight ends Lee Smith, Dawson Knox and

2070
01:47:13,360 --> 01:47:17,920
Speaker 1: Tommy Sweeney went into the season and Knox kind of

2071
01:47:18,680 --> 01:47:21,719
Speaker 1: held it out, held on to it. He developed fast,

2072
01:47:21,800 --> 01:47:25,160
Speaker 1: certainly had some problems with some fits and starts, and

2073
01:47:25,360 --> 01:47:28,280
Speaker 1: some rookie stuff happened to him with some drops during

2074
01:47:28,320 --> 01:47:33,000
Speaker 1: the regular season. But Jason Croome and Tyler Craft were

2075
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:36,719
Speaker 1: two guys I think they had big plans for at

2076
01:47:36,760 --> 01:47:39,680
Speaker 1: this time last year. Now, certainly they might not have

2077
01:47:39,880 --> 01:47:42,120
Speaker 1: might have changed his training camp war On and stuff,

2078
01:47:42,120 --> 01:47:44,080
Speaker 1: and his training camp did war On. I thought it

2079
01:47:44,120 --> 01:47:49,000
Speaker 1: was gonna be you know, Croome and Croft and you know,

2080
01:47:49,040 --> 01:47:51,240
Speaker 1: and Lee Smith and those guys, and Tommy Sweeney, may

2081
01:47:51,280 --> 01:47:53,840
Speaker 1: even Dawson Knox. Dawson Knox would be an afterthought and

2082
01:47:53,880 --> 01:47:56,280
Speaker 1: maybe play some special teams, maybe get a Repper two

2083
01:47:56,400 --> 01:47:59,439
Speaker 1: and multiple tight endsets. But it didn't happen that way.

2084
01:47:59,680 --> 01:48:02,960
Speaker 1: So this year happens in a different way for the group,

2085
01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:06,680
Speaker 1: meaning they all stay healthy. Maybe, you know, we've been

2086
01:48:06,720 --> 01:48:09,000
Speaker 1: talking about them being underrated. Maybe one of the things

2087
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:10,800
Speaker 1: that underrated them was the fact they got off to

2088
01:48:10,800 --> 01:48:13,760
Speaker 1: a slow start with injuries. And maybe now with the

2089
01:48:13,800 --> 01:48:17,599
Speaker 1: offensive line intact, with Josh Allen taking another step forward,

2090
01:48:17,680 --> 01:48:19,920
Speaker 1: maybe this is a year with a healthy tight end group,

2091
01:48:19,960 --> 01:48:22,080
Speaker 1: things really change for the better for all of them

2092
01:48:23,200 --> 01:48:26,280
Speaker 1: and Death twos in Florida training with the other players.

2093
01:48:26,960 --> 01:48:29,400
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox and Tommy Sweeney were a part of that

2094
01:48:29,520 --> 01:48:32,880
Speaker 1: group that was helping train. They might have not been

2095
01:48:32,920 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 1: taking most of their throats or most of their passes

2096
01:48:36,360 --> 01:48:40,000
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen, but they were working with Matt Barkley

2097
01:48:40,160 --> 01:48:43,080
Speaker 1: and Davis Webb. Probably. I know Josh Allen was focused

2098
01:48:43,080 --> 01:48:47,120
Speaker 1: on creating chemistry with Steph Diggs in the passing game,

2099
01:48:47,240 --> 01:48:51,639
Speaker 1: But Dawson Knox and Tommy Sweeney, we're working with that group,

2100
01:48:51,640 --> 01:48:54,120
Speaker 1: and I think that speaks volumes for them and the

2101
01:48:54,160 --> 01:48:56,720
Speaker 1: President that they want to set in the type of

2102
01:48:56,840 --> 01:48:58,920
Speaker 1: player that they want to be in this game and

2103
01:48:58,960 --> 01:49:02,880
Speaker 1: the type of role but they want to have. Yeah,

2104
01:49:03,120 --> 01:49:04,679
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be interesting to see how they're

2105
01:49:04,720 --> 01:49:07,599
Speaker 1: used because all these guys are gonna be changing too. Um,

2106
01:49:08,080 --> 01:49:12,560
Speaker 1: you know they all the Dawson Knocks is gonna be

2107
01:49:12,600 --> 01:49:18,479
Speaker 1: different player this training camp then he was um last

2108
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Speaker 1: year at this time. It's also the same thing with

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Speaker 1: Tommy's Tweeney. They're gonna be much in a much different

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Speaker 1: place mentally this year than they were last year. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I just think that, um, everything's gonna

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Speaker 1: be different as this training camp and this regular season

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Speaker 1: takes one goes on it gets underway because these young players,

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Speaker 1: and there's a ton of them on this roster, not

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Speaker 1: just at the tight end position, this this whole team

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Speaker 1: is going to be in a different spot mentally than

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Speaker 1: they were a year ago, and I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: make a big difference for the way they look on

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Speaker 1: the field, particularly earlier in training camp. Let's take a

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Speaker 1: break the bottom of the hour. H next time, we

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Speaker 1: got NFL true fall. So we're also gonna do We're

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Speaker 1: gonna push our top five into the next segments. That

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Speaker 1: all right, Maddie, we gotta get to the top five.

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Speaker 1: All right? All right? What Fields Live Presentified Kalid to Health.

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Speaker 1: I'm Buffalo Fields Radio. Welcome back to one of wils

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Speaker 1: Live Tea taster along with Maddie Glab We're here the

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Speaker 1: final half hour of the show. We're gonna start off

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Speaker 1: this little segment here with our top five of the week.

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Speaker 1: Now this is um, we're just gonna this is all stuff.

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Speaker 1: This is our me and what me and Maddie have

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01:50:31,760 --> 01:50:33,360
Speaker 1: been going through that and we got a little some

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Speaker 1: highs and lows. Um, but we're gonna do the top five,

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Speaker 1: the good five. Um right, that's what you mean? How

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Speaker 1: we gonna do is we're gonna do five to one?

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Speaker 1: It is? There is there like a ranking of these

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Speaker 1: top five because I just I just had five things.

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Speaker 1: So we're in my top five, all right, That's that's

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Speaker 1: what I was gonna do. I got my top five.

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Speaker 1: Two they're not in any particular order. Um. So well,

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Speaker 1: so we'll take turns. You do one of yours, then

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Speaker 1: I'll do one of my, and then we'll go, okay,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, what's your what's your first top five? Okay?

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Speaker 1: My first top five is With everything that's going on

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Speaker 1: in our world this week, it's great to see that

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Speaker 1: athletes and people and people in power are using their

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Speaker 1: platforms to speak out against racial injustice and speak for

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Speaker 1: racial equality. There's just a lot of people who want

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Speaker 1: change right now, and I think it's awesome that people

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Speaker 1: are using their platform and choosing not to stay silent

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Speaker 1: and choosing to speak up. So that's on my top

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Speaker 1: five this week. My other top five is kind of

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick mine to kind of match yours if

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Speaker 1: if I'm a mine or I you know, I spend

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01:51:42,280 --> 01:51:44,120
Speaker 1: we You and I've both spend some time on social

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01:51:44,160 --> 01:51:46,160
Speaker 1: media and we're out in Blackout Tuesday, so we're not

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01:51:46,200 --> 01:51:49,559
Speaker 1: posting anything today. But I have been able to witness

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01:51:50,720 --> 01:51:58,320
Speaker 1: black men on video talking like men, and to have

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Speaker 1: guys like me, white guys like me my age or

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Speaker 1: older or my age or younger. Here the passion and

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Speaker 1: the truth of what the black community is saying and

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Speaker 1: hearing it from men they respect who happen to be

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Speaker 1: black has been really important. I think for the conversation

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01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:23,160
Speaker 1: to move forward. There's so many people, you know, like

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Speaker 1: white people like you and me and Jay, and it

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Speaker 1: seems far away from us sometimes because we're not black,

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01:52:32,800 --> 01:52:35,479
Speaker 1: we don't get it. But for our friends and for

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01:52:35,520 --> 01:52:37,160
Speaker 1: the people we love, a lot of people that we

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Speaker 1: love and respect, it hits him in the face every day.

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Speaker 1: I myself, I don't have any instances, but I've have

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Speaker 1: friends who have told me their experiences that have happened.

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Speaker 1: Over the years I've done. I've heard dozens of stories

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Speaker 1: that just makes you sign o, God, shake your head,

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01:52:54,920 --> 01:52:57,920
Speaker 1: just not don't know, And it just happens over and

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Speaker 1: over and over again to guys that I love and respect,

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Speaker 1: who are great, just wonderful people who just have to

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Speaker 1: do were forced to endure it. So my chance for

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Speaker 1: other people other than me to see some of the

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Speaker 1: stories and see the passion and the truth of it

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Speaker 1: from men that are worthy to carry that message is

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Speaker 1: one of my top five things this week. What's another

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Speaker 1: top five thing for him? Not all of mine are

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Speaker 1: going to be this serious, but I wanted to start

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Speaker 1: with that one. Same here, I agree with you, Lorenzo

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Speaker 1: Alexander being on today was amazing. What he had to

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Speaker 1: say on the subject was so great to hear his words,

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Speaker 1: they were so powerful. Another thing on my top five

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Speaker 1: bills related the Bills players getting together in Florida. To

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Speaker 1: see twenty of our players together orchestrated by a player,

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Speaker 1: practices ran by a player, just the leadership within that

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01:53:52,880 --> 01:53:55,639
Speaker 1: group and to see those pictures. It made me so

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01:53:55,760 --> 01:53:59,880
Speaker 1: excited and so pumped and Isaaia Mackenzie and I works

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01:54:00,040 --> 01:54:03,920
Speaker 1: changing dms back and forth this morning, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: I'm so pumped that you guys were able to get

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Speaker 1: together in Florida. It was amazing to see. I think

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01:54:08,720 --> 01:54:11,080
Speaker 1: this fan base is really excited now because of seeing

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Speaker 1: some of those pictures. And he said, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was so great to get back with

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Speaker 1: those players. I missed them so much. You have no

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Speaker 1: idea how amazing it was to be back with those guys.

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Speaker 1: He said, I can't wait to get back to Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, me too. I hope we're all

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Speaker 1: able to get back together next month. I miss you guys.

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Speaker 1: That's a good one. I like that one as well.

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Speaker 1: My number two is the launch of SpaceX. I love

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Speaker 1: seeing it. The spaceship was cool. The fact that somebody

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Speaker 1: other than some government put somebody into space. It was

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Speaker 1: a private industry. The guys in their space suits, they

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Speaker 1: were modern space age, cool science fiction type stuff. And

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Speaker 1: the fact that a big part of the spaceship, a

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Speaker 1: twenty story part of the spaceship, came back and landed.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. There we're way ahead of where we've

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Speaker 1: ever been. And as hard as things are here with

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Speaker 1: a pandemic and the racial unrest and the turmoil in

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Speaker 1: our country, the other end of the spectrum and technology

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Speaker 1: and the entire human race being united in the fact

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Speaker 1: that we're all on this one planet and we're striving

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Speaker 1: and clawing and scratching our way into an outer world.

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Speaker 1: To me was a top five moment and I really

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Speaker 1: got a kick out of seeing that happened. So that

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Speaker 1: was my other top five. I'm laughing because behind Jay,

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna put this on my top five because

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Speaker 1: of your daughter, Jay. Straight to watch Jay our producer's

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01:55:49,320 --> 01:55:52,840
Speaker 1: daughter Addie during the show, she just jumps on Jay

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01:55:52,920 --> 01:55:56,400
Speaker 1: and is so happy and you could see her smile, smile,

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01:55:56,480 --> 01:55:59,800
Speaker 1: And right now she's watching a video and jumping around

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01:55:59,760 --> 01:56:04,000
Speaker 1: da sing. She's got headphones on. Yeah, because it's so great.

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01:56:04,120 --> 01:56:06,879
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I want to know a video she's watching.

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01:56:07,080 --> 01:56:09,680
Speaker 1: I want to learn the dance that she's doing right now,

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01:56:09,720 --> 01:56:13,400
Speaker 1: because that just made me crack up and bring a

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01:56:13,480 --> 01:56:16,080
Speaker 1: huge smile to my face. So that's that's a late

2231
01:56:16,120 --> 01:56:19,040
Speaker 1: ad for my top five is to see Jay, our

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Speaker 1: producer's daughter Addie just be so excited and happy and

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01:56:23,160 --> 01:56:26,720
Speaker 1: rambunctious every day. She's just so adorable. So I believe

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Speaker 1: because everybody's working for remotely, right, I mean, we're all

2235
01:56:30,040 --> 01:56:32,120
Speaker 1: working from home, and everybody's got their own issues. You

2236
01:56:32,160 --> 01:56:34,400
Speaker 1: got to work through bad Wi Fi or a bad

2237
01:56:34,440 --> 01:56:36,879
Speaker 1: spot or a room that echoes like an echo chamber.

2238
01:56:37,040 --> 01:56:42,360
Speaker 1: And for Jay Harris, ADDIE's absolutely going bonk or she hasn't.

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01:56:42,480 --> 01:56:44,640
Speaker 1: She has no clue what we're doing over. She has

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Speaker 1: got her back to us and looking at a looking

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Speaker 1: at a surface, got some video going, and she's going

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Speaker 1: nuts by herself. So she has no idea. She's getting

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01:56:54,600 --> 01:56:56,640
Speaker 1: called out either. That's the best part of us, and

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01:56:56,720 --> 01:56:59,000
Speaker 1: she doesn't care. So that's yeah, that's a good top five,

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Speaker 1: all right, My all right, My other top five two things.

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Speaker 1: One for the entire day. The other day we had

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Speaker 1: all three of our six grandchildren at our house all day.

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01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:14,520
Speaker 1: So we have got this isolation pod going right where

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01:57:14,520 --> 01:57:17,120
Speaker 1: we've got our families that have all isolated together, and

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Speaker 1: so we're we can interact together without social distancing because

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01:57:21,480 --> 01:57:24,200
Speaker 1: we're all being quarantined together, right, so we can't. We

2252
01:57:24,240 --> 01:57:26,160
Speaker 1: don't go out, we don't do business with other things.

2253
01:57:26,200 --> 01:57:28,000
Speaker 1: We have everything delivered, so we're all kind of in

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01:57:28,040 --> 01:57:30,880
Speaker 1: this pod, my family and some of my the in

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Speaker 1: laws of my sons and who we share grandchildren with.

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Speaker 1: So one of those days we had all three of

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Speaker 1: our grandchildren over and they are getting this family. My

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01:57:40,880 --> 01:57:42,960
Speaker 1: older son has a four year old, a two year old,

2259
01:57:42,960 --> 01:57:45,880
Speaker 1: and a newborn, and now the four year old and

2260
01:57:45,880 --> 01:57:50,920
Speaker 1: two year old recognize and have affection towards us. They're

2261
01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:53,400
Speaker 1: not just kids who are babysitting, you know. They you know,

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01:57:53,560 --> 01:57:56,320
Speaker 1: and they have a relationship of their own, each of

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01:57:56,360 --> 01:57:59,280
Speaker 1: them with each of us, and that is getting to

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01:57:59,320 --> 01:58:01,160
Speaker 1: be a point in ours where that's pretty cool to

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01:58:01,200 --> 01:58:04,360
Speaker 1: see our little grandkids are having being their people of

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01:58:04,400 --> 01:58:07,200
Speaker 1: their own now, not just their mom and dad's babies,

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01:58:07,240 --> 01:58:09,840
Speaker 1: you know. And to see them have their own personality

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01:58:09,840 --> 01:58:12,240
Speaker 1: and to have affection towards us and to come up

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01:58:12,240 --> 01:58:13,720
Speaker 1: to me for a hug and a kiss and all

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01:58:13,760 --> 01:58:15,720
Speaker 1: that stuff is pretty cool. So that was one of

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Speaker 1: my top fives. That just kind of happening, you know,

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Speaker 1: as we speak, So that's pretty cool. That's my other

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Speaker 1: top five. That's awesome. Another top five for me is

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Speaker 1: watching professional sports leagues start to set dates and have

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01:58:28,640 --> 01:58:30,960
Speaker 1: plans in place for when they're going to start back

2276
01:58:31,000 --> 01:58:33,400
Speaker 1: up again, even if it's when they're going to start

2277
01:58:33,480 --> 01:58:36,640
Speaker 1: practicing again and target date for when they hope to

2278
01:58:36,640 --> 01:58:40,840
Speaker 1: start playing again. That wasn't the case a month ago.

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01:58:40,880 --> 01:58:42,880
Speaker 1: We weren't talking about this. A month ago. We were

2280
01:58:42,920 --> 01:58:44,840
Speaker 1: hoping for the day when this would start to be

2281
01:58:44,920 --> 01:58:48,240
Speaker 1: talked about. But I think that's a really great thing

2282
01:58:48,280 --> 01:58:50,760
Speaker 1: and a positive thing for the NFL because the dates

2283
01:58:50,760 --> 01:58:54,800
Speaker 1: that they're targeting are before and around when training camp

2284
01:58:54,880 --> 01:58:58,600
Speaker 1: would start. So I think training camp is hopefully going

2285
01:58:58,640 --> 01:59:01,200
Speaker 1: to start at the perfect time once these leagues have

2286
01:59:01,560 --> 01:59:05,520
Speaker 1: started practicing again, and hopefully when leagues like the NHL

2287
01:59:05,560 --> 01:59:07,920
Speaker 1: and the MLB in the NBA open back up and

2288
01:59:07,960 --> 01:59:11,880
Speaker 1: begin practicing together, that there's no spike in anything and

2289
01:59:12,120 --> 01:59:14,840
Speaker 1: that the NFL can just go ahead with training camps.

2290
01:59:14,880 --> 01:59:17,400
Speaker 1: So that's been a positive. Top five for me is

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01:59:17,640 --> 01:59:19,440
Speaker 1: seeing these leagues come out and say, all right, we're

2292
01:59:19,480 --> 01:59:21,800
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna start getting back together on this date,

2293
01:59:21,920 --> 01:59:23,960
Speaker 1: and we're gonna hope to start playing by this date.

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01:59:24,400 --> 01:59:27,040
Speaker 1: My top five is along those lines. It happened this morning,

2295
01:59:27,240 --> 01:59:30,960
Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo. We're in phase two Western New York Phase

2296
01:59:31,000 --> 01:59:34,880
Speaker 1: two and so so we're you know, it's a huge

2297
01:59:34,880 --> 01:59:37,240
Speaker 1: it's a big step, right, and it's kind of cool.

2298
01:59:38,640 --> 01:59:41,960
Speaker 1: And it was almost maybe two weeks maybe fifteen days

2299
01:59:43,120 --> 01:59:46,560
Speaker 1: since the last phase. So we are progressing. We're knocking

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01:59:46,600 --> 01:59:48,640
Speaker 1: those phases out now. It doesn't mean that we can't

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01:59:48,680 --> 01:59:51,600
Speaker 1: regress a little bit or whatever, but Phase two two

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01:59:52,240 --> 01:59:56,600
Speaker 1: has begun and that's a positive, and that's one of

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01:59:56,680 --> 01:59:59,880
Speaker 1: my top five. So there is starting. We're maybe the

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02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:01,640
Speaker 1: there's no light at the end of the tunnel yet,

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02:00:01,680 --> 02:00:04,720
Speaker 1: but certainly we are chugging down the tracks and we're

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02:00:04,720 --> 02:00:07,560
Speaker 1: making some progress. And this going into phase two today

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02:00:07,600 --> 02:00:09,800
Speaker 1: has been a big As my top five, I think

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02:00:09,840 --> 02:00:12,720
Speaker 1: we're at number four. That was our fourth, that was

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02:00:12,720 --> 02:00:15,680
Speaker 1: our fourth stage one. All right, last one, what's your

2310
02:00:15,720 --> 02:00:19,480
Speaker 1: last top five? One? For me? I'm gonna say the

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02:00:19,520 --> 02:00:22,120
Speaker 1: warm weather is the top five for me. It has

2312
02:00:22,160 --> 02:00:25,280
Speaker 1: been so great for the weather to warm up. This

2313
02:00:25,360 --> 02:00:29,440
Speaker 1: is my first Buffalo winter, my first year with the team. Now,

2314
02:00:29,480 --> 02:00:32,240
Speaker 1: I grew up in Chicago, so I understand what it's

2315
02:00:32,240 --> 02:00:34,840
Speaker 1: like to go through a winter, but the last four

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02:00:34,920 --> 02:00:37,360
Speaker 1: years of my life before moving to Buffalo, I was

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Speaker 1: in Tennessee and they got no snow and it was

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Speaker 1: never too cold. The coldest it dropped down to was

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Speaker 1: like thirties and it may be a day or two

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Speaker 1: of that. So I am getting used to long winters again.

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Speaker 1: And man, oh man, I was so ready for it

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Speaker 1: to hit seventies, and I'm so happy it has because

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Speaker 1: I think that's been a hard thing for a lot

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Speaker 1: of us in uarantine is for us to be stuck inside,

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Speaker 1: but also for it to be freaking cold outside. Two,

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Speaker 1: now that the sun's out, it's warmer. It's it's much

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Speaker 1: more enjoyable to still have to stay at home. That's right.

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Speaker 1: That's a good top five, and in my top five.

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Speaker 1: Once again, we're kind of on the same wavelength here

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Speaker 1: with all of our top fives. Here's it is now. Listen,

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Speaker 1: I went with you. I went to college in Northwestern

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Speaker 1: in Chicago. Right, you can live your whole life in

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Speaker 1: Buffalo and move to Chicago and freeze your chea cheese off.

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Speaker 1: It is cold in Chicago. We get a lot of

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Speaker 1: snow here, yeah, but Chicago, you'll die in that cold.

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Speaker 1: It's a crusher. So you can say what you want

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Speaker 1: about our weather. Chicago is Yeah, we're not we have

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Speaker 1: anything on Chicago's cold. All right, here's my but since

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Speaker 1: we're all in here's my top five. My last one,

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Speaker 1: since we're all in quarantine together and you know, we're

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Speaker 1: all kind of you know, putting on the Freshman twenty.

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Speaker 1: My top five. My wife made a big batch of

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Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookies. And my wife's chocolate chip cookies are

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Speaker 1: award winning. They are so good. And so during this quarantine,

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I've actually lost weight. I'm down like

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Speaker 1: ten pounds. Yeah, just I don't know whether it's stress

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Speaker 1: or you know, I'm worried about jay or getting the

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Speaker 1: gym every day. No, I don't know. You know better,

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Speaker 1: you know what it is. I've started walking the golf

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Speaker 1: course again. When the weather turned, I started walking, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it's a five mile walk when you go out

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Speaker 1: and do that. So for whatever reason, um, I've dropped weight.

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Speaker 1: So when she made those chocolate chip cookies, man, it

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02:02:28,200 --> 02:02:31,560
Speaker 1: was no holds barred. I was. I was wolfing those

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Speaker 1: things down. It was awesome. And also not not for nothing,

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Speaker 1: but one of my family members is opening up a

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Speaker 1: new business and they're and it's uh, they're doing taste

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Speaker 1: tests and they have all that stuff going on. So

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Speaker 1: I've been trying out new flavors of ice cream. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been that's my top five. You're over there like

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Speaker 1: a dessert factory in the task household. Every moment, not

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Speaker 1: a lot, not all the time, not twenty four to seven,

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Speaker 1: but every so often all of us have moments where

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Speaker 1: we're living our best life. And there it was for

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Speaker 1: me when those chuck the chip cookies popped out of

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Speaker 1: the oven and I was motioning those into my all right,

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Speaker 1: those are a top good good saying, we'll have to

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Speaker 1: do that again. Top five. That's good at least. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: top five for the week. That's Maddie. Now, do we

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Speaker 1: have time to do NFL true Falls? No, we don't

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Speaker 1: have time to do drum. We're gonna push that back

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Speaker 1: till tomorrow. I'm gonna do that. We got a lot

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Speaker 1: of we've got a lot of stuff going. We can

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Speaker 1: break here. Let's just take a break. We'll take our

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Speaker 1: last break. This is Steve Tasker, Maddie, glad we're here

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Speaker 1: just till the top of the air, till three o'clock.

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Speaker 1: We've had a lot of good people on Lorenzo Alexander

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Speaker 1: stopped by. He was with as Steve Murray Ucci was

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Speaker 1: with us. We've come back and stick with us. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna be here to the top of the air. We've

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Speaker 1: got what have we learned? Next? After the break, This

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Speaker 1: is One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. I'm Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. What do we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks,

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Speaker 1: the official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills.

2385
02:04:05,800 --> 02:04:08,640
Speaker 1: We had Lorenzoe Alexander on the program, and given what

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Speaker 1: is going on in the streets of the United States,

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Speaker 1: this is what Lorenzo thought maybe all of us could

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Speaker 1: do to help the concurrent situation in America right now.

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02:04:18,960 --> 02:04:22,560
Speaker 1: Use your leverage and your platform and your resources to

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Speaker 1: create the change. Because I don't have access to everybody,

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02:04:25,280 --> 02:04:28,800
Speaker 1: you know, and your message may come across differently to

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Speaker 1: somebody you explained it too. For example, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: tell somebody, somebody who's my senior, you are angry black dude.

2394
02:04:34,080 --> 02:04:36,280
Speaker 1: But Matt, if you tell them it may come across

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02:04:36,320 --> 02:04:39,240
Speaker 1: it's received differently because the guard is let down. You know,

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02:04:39,280 --> 02:04:42,240
Speaker 1: they don't feel attacked, so you know, so this use

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Speaker 1: your platform impacted your social circles and you have I

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02:04:47,800 --> 02:04:49,840
Speaker 1: think also we have to be consistent about it, right.

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02:04:50,040 --> 02:04:53,360
Speaker 1: I think we were so galvanized by events and then

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Speaker 1: over time we allow that energy to dissipate and then

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02:04:57,360 --> 02:04:59,520
Speaker 1: we move on to the next thing. Just like in media, right,

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02:04:59,560 --> 02:05:02,680
Speaker 1: you know what's the next high story and things last

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours. This is something that's going to take

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Speaker 1: a lot of time and energy. That was Lorenzo Alexander,

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Speaker 1: who enjoyed having him back on the program. We'll look

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Speaker 1: to have him on later in the season as well.

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Speaker 1: We also had Steve mary Yucci mary Ucchi of the

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Speaker 1: NFL Network, former head coach of the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 1: and Lions. He said on the Bills having a real

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Speaker 1: chance this season, maybe even to be the top team

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Speaker 1: in the AFC East. Here's what Steve Marucci said. No,

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Speaker 1: I think I then you got a really good chance

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Speaker 1: baring it, you know, some significant injuries. There's some confidence

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Speaker 1: that the fans know it. They're in a good position,

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Speaker 1: you know, to to really make a push. They were

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Speaker 1: ten and six last year, and they should be a

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Speaker 1: better team than that this year. Better than ten and

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Speaker 1: six is really saying something says you win eleven twelve

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Speaker 1: games in the National Football League. You got a real

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Speaker 1: chance to go deep. That was Steve Mariucci great having

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Speaker 1: him on Mattie Great Top five today. That was a

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Speaker 1: great idea and a good program. Is fun to have

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Speaker 1: on Lorenzo once again. That's one of the highlights I

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Speaker 1: think of the week for us having low back on. Oh. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's always good to talk to him, good to catch

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Speaker 1: up with him. See he's somebody that's i think going

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Speaker 1: to be missed eternally for a very long time by

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Speaker 1: the fan base, by the players, and it's good to

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Speaker 1: know that he's still going to be around. He talks

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Speaker 1: about wanting to get back in May, but of course

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Speaker 1: couldn't because they didn't have any mini camps in person.

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Speaker 1: It was all zoom. But I know he's hoping to

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Speaker 1: get in town for training camp. Hopefully training camp. Woll

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Speaker 1: be able to be there and hopefully it's going to

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Speaker 1: be on time, and it'll be great to see him

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Speaker 1: if we're all able to be there together. Yeah. Also

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Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger coming on later in the week. We'll have

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Speaker 1: him on bald He's going to be with us for

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Speaker 1: a minute or two and also maybe a surprise guest,

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Speaker 1: a mystery guest tomorrow might come on. Don't know. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of things that have to fall in place

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Speaker 1: if we unless unless our guests can't be on with us,

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02:07:00,440 --> 02:07:02,560
Speaker 1: and then he won't be. But if things are in

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Speaker 1: the works that maybe we'll have a mysterius We don't

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02:07:04,120 --> 02:07:05,560
Speaker 1: wanna talk about it now because we don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, So if it does, you'll be the

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Speaker 1: first to hear about. Thanks for joining us today. It's

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Speaker 1: been a long week so far and it's only Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: but it's been fun. Thanks Matti, You've made it good.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Good time, good time. I can't wait for more. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we will. We got plenty more. I mean, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be here with us till Friday. You've got some Zoom

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Speaker 1: calls you're gonna do on Friday. You're not gonna be

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Speaker 1: you know, Chris brown'sie and takeover on Friday for me.

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Speaker 1: And one thing that we've been doing a lot of

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Speaker 1: is the Zoom call interviews. So instead of doing in

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Speaker 1: person things, we've been doing a lot of things over Zoom.

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Speaker 1: A lot of cool ideas too. On Friday, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: help with an arts class with some kids from O'shai.

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Speaker 1: So that's gonna be awesome. So some cool opportunities that

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Speaker 1: have come out of quarantine, for sure, Really look at

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Speaker 1: you's nice, that's awesome. I gotta I'm just gonna help

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Speaker 1: the stility. Yeah, I've done that too. The draft and

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Speaker 1: free agency and after the draft, I think I hosted

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Speaker 1: five Zoom meetings. One with alumni, local alumni, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: worldwide alumni. Then I had fans, season ticket holders and

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Speaker 1: staff and it was fun. It was on with all

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Speaker 1: of those. It's been fun this The quarantine has not

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Speaker 1: been one hundred percent bad. It's just been inconvenient, to

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Speaker 1: say the least at times. Right, I mean, what's your

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Speaker 1: overall opinion, like one or two words, It's it's been tough,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's also brought people together in a

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Speaker 1: cool way. I hope we get to the point where

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Speaker 1: we all realize maybe it was worth it, right, And

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02:08:42,360 --> 02:08:44,160
Speaker 1: that's that's the big thing. As long as it was

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02:08:44,200 --> 02:08:47,160
Speaker 1: worth it, we can come out of this maybe better

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02:08:47,280 --> 02:08:49,600
Speaker 1: on the far side of it. Maybe the pain we

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02:08:49,680 --> 02:08:55,240
Speaker 1: felt now will lead to good growth later on. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's right. Maddie lab Steve Tasker on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Thanks for being with us today. It's been great.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for everybody who helped us put this on, Kelly Rude,

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02:09:02,840 --> 02:09:05,320
Speaker 1: Jay Harris, all the guys back at the studio who

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02:09:05,320 --> 02:09:07,720
Speaker 1: are usually with us. This has been One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Clyde to Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. We'll

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Speaker 1: see it tomorrow. Everybody,